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The leaking of the "interim report" of Justice M.C. Jain, who constituted the one-man commission to investigate the death of Rajiv Gandhi, has suddenly changed the
The Internet is shedding its exclusivist character.
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Vasco da Gama's 500th anniversary touches a raw nerve in Goa.
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India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
Viking Penguin, New Delhi, 1997
A secular, liberal, urbane, globalised Indian fails to grasp India.
This is a shortened version of the more detailed report made to Film South Asia ´97 by the Festival Jury, which comprised of noted filmmaker Pankaj Butalia from Delhi; Colombo-
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While the aloofness from the public behind dark glasses – the signature of King Mahendra – has long been abandoned by his son King Birendra, his advisers over at the Narayanhiti Royal
