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Detours | Salil Tripathi 08:10 PM | September 02,2010
In a Japanese hot spring nestled deep in the countryside, there’s no place to hide
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 08:57 PM | September 01,2010
Peepli [Live] doesn’t mock farmers; it mocks us--consumers, anchors, politicians, bureaucrats --and our callousness
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Detours | Salil Tripathi 09:24 PM | August 26,2010
Three memorials in Phnom Penh, Berlin, Johannesburg show us the meaning of remorse and mercy
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 08:47 PM | August 18,2010
This is the hour of distress for the fishing community; and they are as much part of our landscape as the sky and the rain and the sea
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Salil Tripathi 08:30 PM | August 12,2010
Indians tolerate arguments and opinions as long as they’re about cricket, Bollywood or a few other things such as cutting ‘chai’ and mangoes. Laws protecting free speech are an apology. How did the largest democracy in the world come to this?
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Salil Tripathi 06:54 PM | August 06,2010
An elegant and charming love story, a recalling of the author’s parents’ marriage
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 10:17 PM | August 04,2010
The folks at WikiLeaks were like Hanuman in the battlefield: They had the mountain; they didn’t know where they could find sanjeevani
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Salil Tripathi 07:39 PM | July 22,2010
Contrarian intellectual and polemicist Christopher Hitchens looks back at his life with his characteristic wit and zest
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 08:50 PM | July 21,2010
‘My friend Vijay Mallya is buying Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles. He also bought a cricket team, so I bought Tendulkar’s blood.’
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Detours | Salil Tripathi 10:04 PM | July 08,2010
The Big Apple may be brash and relentless, but you never tire of this city that rejuvenates itself constantly
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 08:25 PM | July 07,2010
Naipaul’s forefathers left Gorakhpur many years ago; getting papers from a revenue officer there is not for the faint-hearted
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 08:48 PM | June 23,2010
Hitler’s quest for Aryan supremacy makes some Hindus nostalgic; his use of the swastika makes some feel a vague kinship
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Detours | Salil Tripathi 08:02 PM | June 18,2010
On a Marquezian evening out of Bogotá, the discovery of true wealth
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 11:51 PM | June 09,2010
Union Carbide, which insisted all along that a disgruntled worker sabotaged the plant, says the matter is over
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 11:33 PM | May 26,2010
No Indian city has been turned into Bangkok, yet. India needs to weaken its Maoists before it gets there
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