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  1. Seeing More LGBT Faces

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    / July 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Since last week, while I’m here in Hyderabad, and reading about Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean coming out and the flurry of emotions it’s caused, I’m bewildered. I have always been enthralled by those who dared to love themselves at a time when they were given to understand that they...

  2. The obsession with farmer suicides

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    / December 13, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Archana Venkat The Press Council Chairman Justice Katju’s recent salvo has come over the front page coverage of actor Dev Anand’s recent demise. While you could argue that Dev Anand’s demise may not have technically qualified for front page news, I think, neither does farmer suicides (as was stressed...

  3. Farming between two lines

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    / November 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir All through his growing up years and later, my father has enjoyed the reputation of being an ace at mathematics and logic in family circles, and would love to throw little `puzzle’ challenges to us. One that came back to me suddenly the other day was: How...

  4. Fire in the belly

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    / June 19, 2011 / 3 Comments
    “Telangana lo vanta, dilli lo manta” or “Cooking in Telangana, Fire in Delhi” was the slogan. But the heat of the June sun, the smoke and heat from the cooking fire around which they stood and the excitement of performing live before television cameras, was confusing the women party workers...

  5. Suicide-free farming, anyone?

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / January 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    If we look at the GDP figures on account of agriculture for the last two decades, we find that it has all along been on decline. In 1990–91, it was 32%, in 2005-06 20% and in 2007–08, it came down to 17%. This situation is despite the fact that India...

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