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A dose of sunshine vitamin

Vitamin D is vital for good health, but beware of large doses that may bring about coma....

Monsoon, menstruation and math

Menstrual hygiene is a simple and basic need, but there are few efforts to place it front and centre....

The star campaigner

Though Akshay charmed scribes during his film’s promotion, little was said about the upcoming release....

Politics on a tragedy

Narendra Modi has been playing politics with a tragedy, be it Godhra, Akshardham or Surat floods....

Amrita Sher-Gil centenary

Amrita Sher-Gil’s letters to her sister and her father are immensely lively, sometimes combative....

Prosecute ATS for Malegaon crime

The NIA investigation confirms the belief that even in serious cases evidence is often fabricated, witness testimony coerced, incriminating articles planted, and innocent people falsely accused....

Baldness is not unstoppable

To stop balding, avoid stress and adopt a balanced, nutritive diet, rich in proteins, minerals and vitamins....

Dams of Uttarakhand

Mindless development of mini hydel power projects can lead to disasters....

Always seemed like Tony Soprano

Unlike the glamorous mafiosos we have met in films directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, James Gandolfini’s character Tony Soprano was a person we recognised....

Crimes and damn statistics

In the latest NCRB report, Karnataka police received only 95 distress calls for all of 2012. Really?
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The King Kapoor

Besides proving himself the finest actor in his family, Ranbir now looks even better than SRK....

Pavankumar Jain, poet

The poet has been writing since 1970 but has published only one book yet. Why? Because he ‘felt diffident’....

The wisdom of coalitions

The reactions to the NDA divorce were less interesting than understanding politics of survival of coalitions....

To call or not to call

The link between cancer and cell phones hasn’t been proven yet, but should we take the risk?....

Up-ramping and childcare

Why do we assume that women have nothing else to do and should jump at the chance of child-rearing?....

Protest is a Dead Art

Today protest is accommodated by the government, but not in the best traditions of democracy

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Those subversive open spaces

The political volatility inherent in public spaces makes them dangerous to governments everywhere....

All those missing writers

I hope historian Gyan Prakash will now turn his detective skills in the direction of the many neglected novels lying in the dusty drawyers of university and other libraries....