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  1. Burn the Veil and Break the Ice

    Posted by G Veda Vyass
    / June 7, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Trends. This is one word that will always be there and the change in trends will always remain a constant element. Boot cut pants were a fashion of the 70’s and 80’s. Denim has bogarted the Indian industry thereafter. They never realized that this was not comfortable to conditions that...

  2. Almost everyone loves a `poor’ India

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    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Last week, there was a huge uproar in the Lok Sabha because the Planning Commission decided that poverty has decreased in the country by 7% since 2004. The planning comission also said that “These calculations are based on the daily per capita consumption of Rs. 28 in urban areas and Rs....

  3. The footpath opposite Cinemax

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    / February 4, 2012 / 4 Comments
    “Would you like to see Ra.one tonight?” texted my dad one evening last October. Of course I’d like to see Ra.one, I’d love to see Ra.one. There was a special screening at Prasad Labs in Hyderabad that night. So, my  sister and I, contrary to how we generally dress up for...

  4. The Maoists in white

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    / December 1, 2011 / 1 Comment
    The Maoists are certain Kishenji was tortured after he was picked up and then killed in a fake encounter in the forests of West Bengal. The state denies the charge. It is a familiar pattern of accusation and denial, that takes place whenever any top Maoist is killed. Not to...

  5. The definition of `poverty’ has to change

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    / October 1, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S Sarma   On September 6, 2010, the Prime Minister had said that “it is not possible in this country to give free food to all the poor people”. Close on the heels of this came the affidavit filed by Planning Commission before Hon’ble Supreme Court that...

  6. Will you live on Rs 32 a day, Mr Montek Ahluwalia?

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    / September 30, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Sh. MONTEK SINGH AHLUWALIA, DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON, PLANNING COMMISSION OF INDIA, YOJANA BHAWAN, NEW DELHI   Dear Sh. Ahluwalia,   While you were abroad deliberating on global matters, the Planning Commission filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming that the “poverty line of Rs.25 and Rs.32 (rural and urban areas...

  7. Can the hungry go on a hunger strike?

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    / August 21, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Arundhati Roy Our country is poised at a dangerous place right now for many reasons. There are all kinds of battles for supremacy. There are real resistances, there are theatrical and false resistances, revolutions from the top, revolutions from the bottom. And sometimes all of this is interpreted by...

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