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Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Ad for Advani: L K Advani, has come out with a memoir in which he unabashedly blows his own trumpet | Read Review
SLIDESHOW
Quite spa-cial
A bevy of stars turned by for the launch of this spa by Deanne and Chikki Pandey, led by King Khan himself. Shah Rukh arrived with wife Gauri.
ASTROLOGY
VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)
This is the time of year to review your beliefs, your philosophy of living. We constantly discard what no longer fits and take in new information which causes us to alter our approach. With Jupiter in your chart area of creativity and self-expression you will be more of an entertainer than usual, hugely confident and flamboyant. But you could be over-sensitive to criticism.
What lies beneath the skin of everyday life
There’s been a load of humbug written about how Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories are about the ‘diasporic experience’.
The war between Babylon and Disneyland
Sayed is at the forefront of the resistance movement against the US in Baghdad. With a shop for electronics as his front, he smuggles out bombs in television sets.
Ad for Advani
Now, Lal Krishan Advani, an even more key protagonist of the saffron saga, has come out with a memoir in which he unabashedly blows his own trumpet.
Poet of Madanpura’s mill workers
Young Asrar ul Haq Majaaz’s Urdu verses made him such a heartthrob on the Aligarh Muslim University campus that groups of girls drew lots to decide who would marry him.
The anti-caste iconoclast of medieval India
The 12th century Ramanuja is a doughty philosopher in his own right who challenged Sankara’s abstruse abstractions.
If you have faith in numbers, forget God
Take the case of the teleological argument, which says that since the world around us is so complex, it is too much to expect that it came about randomly.
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