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CULTURE EDITOR: Deepti Lamba
CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK
Cherry Bomb, Mother TeresaAnd The Vagina Dialogues
CULTURE FEATURES:
Uma Ranganathan wonders about the role law abiding citizens play towards curtailing violence
Deepa Krishnan asks whether love exists in arranged marriages
smallsquirrel gives a salad recipe
Doctor Bhaskar Dasgupta talks about children in a Bhopal orphanage
Adithya comments on the subcontinental divide
- Mar 18, 2010
- Introducing Astrology in Schools
Astrology needs to be thrust down the minds of all. - A Lesson Finally LearnedThe Ray household does not acquire gadgets in haste.
- Tag me a PriceNothing in life comes without a price attached to it not even life itself.
- Mar 17, 2010
- Alone, White, and Female in India
What's the right advice for a young white woman travelling alone in India? - Should Marriage be Abolished?Should family be replaced by Commune?
- Abusing the British Welfare StateWhen Diarmuid asks the wife what she feels about sponging off the state, she points to her husband and goes it is his fault! He
- Mar 16, 2010
- Mdantsane Dancing- Poetry of Mdantsane
she touches her eyes and her hips again in other patterns.... - Unleash The Paparazzi HoundsCelebrities need to be reigned in.
- Mar 15, 2010
- Book Review: Bhagwata Purana, Skandha Two, Part OneA review of the Bhagwata Purana, Skhandha two, first of three parts
- Book Review: Bhagwata Purana, Skandha Two, Part One
- Mar 14, 2010
- Photography Times: Green Snake
Looking through the viewfinder at close to the entire focal length of my lens, it seemed as if he was staring straight into my eyes.
- Mar 11, 2010
- Does Marriage Destroy Friendship?For marital friendship to be successful, friendship needs to go beyond the concept of conditional love.
- Does Marriage Destroy Friendship?
- Mar 10, 2010
- Book Review: The Tunnel at the End of TimeThe Armageddon was inevitable... We needed it, and so we created it. But it is only illusion...
- Male Dominance and Historical Wrongs done to Women
Should men be apologetic and live life feeling guilty and defensive? - Photo Essay: Circumambulation of the London Fashion WeekA photo essay of what's outside the London Fashion Week.
- Book Review: The Tunnel at the End of Time
- Mar 9, 2010
- To My "Little Women"There! 11 things - one for each year that I have been a mother.
- Fear and LustThat feeling....
- Photography Times: Silhouetted SeagullSunrise and sunset are probably the favorite times of the day for any photographer.
- To My "Little Women"
- Mar 8, 2010
- Photo Essay: When I Am Gone Harrow CemeteryA photo essay on the local village cemetery
- Shri RamChandra Kripalu Bhajman (Prayer by Tulsidas, With Translation And Notes)
Introduction (for the initiated, for foreigners, for skeptics and for believers) Ramayana is the most important and influential epic...
- Photo Essay: When I Am Gone Harrow Cemetery
- Mar 5, 2010
- Ideart: Good Karma, Bad MedicineThe best way to communicate this thought may be visual and not verbal.
- Cut Loose All The Flying KitesMany understand why the government deems it necessary to wage this war against the harmless kite, but everyone still wants it.
- The Culture of Tips and Service Charges
Tips and service charges can add up to a sizable portion of the overall cost, especially when you are not prepared
- Ideart: Good Karma, Bad Medicine
- Mar 4, 2010
- Mumbai - The Core of IndiaIt is the same democracy which allowed Bapu to fast and churn a nation and more.
- Spring-ing a SurpriseConfronted with a pile from my latest indiscretions, I make yet another no more shopping, I have enough resolution.
- Lahore: Rants and Raves UnrelentingIf I could sum up Lahore I'll do it like everyone else does - this city doesn't sleep.
- Mumbai - The Core of India
- Mar 3, 2010
- Lahore: Rants and RavesHere we emphasize on preserving our taste buds; the real essence of survival
- The Filth That We Are Comfortable WithBangalore drowns in filth, no one cares and corporate responsibility has never been more meaningless.
- Lahore: Rants and Raves
- Mar 2, 2010
- Bhagvata Purana, Skandha 1
I have to admit that I did not even know about this book till somebody told me that the Bhagvata Purana is also known as - Poetry: Maqbool Fida Hussain - A Qatari Citizena nation stayed speechless / a ninety-six years old / became a foreigner / to himself.
- Fiction: Misery - Past And PresentThe ghost of the unmarked grave now hitchhiked in the body of Darshini.
- Whenever a sparrow flew, Poems of Gwaliorwhenever a sparrow flew away whenever another day arrived.
- Fiction: Bitter CoffeeShe preferred espresso shots but he couldn't stand their acrid taste.
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