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  1. India’s leaders, new age Roadies !

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    / April 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Come shop for your leaders in the grand retail of the Republic.Just off a highway outside Hyderabad, I saw many white and gold YSRs waving at the busy evening traffic. When I looked closer, it was a whole army of familiar figures – Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, NTR, Indira Gandhi and...

  2. Crash at the crash site

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    / January 24, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Rama Lakshmi The Mangalore air crash is just eight months old. It stayed on the front page for several days. Then we forgot about it and moved on. We may, of course, remember the event again if we are hit with another catastrophe. But what about the dead people?...

  3. Match-fixing, Madurai style !

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    / January 23, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Landing in Madurai, my hometown, it seemed the entire town was out to get married. As Tamilnadu gets set to catch poll fever, these young couples are hogging as much of the airspace, pavement space and wallspace in Madurai and Theni as the politicos themselves. It is almost as if...

  4. What makes some stories endure?

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    / December 26, 2010 / 3 Comments
    By Rama LakshmiSome family stories stay with you forever. The ones that are enigmatic and don’t have neatly-tied endings can haunt you. And then there are those that refuse to remain caged in the forgotten corners of the past and surprise you each time. This is the story of my...