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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 11:36 PM | July 20,2009
I’ve never quite understood the connection between Gujarat and prohibition. Does Gujarat have some special, exalted status because it is the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi?
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 10:37 PM | June 22,2009
At my grandmother’s house, we’d have delightful nights sleeping outdoors underneath the stars, slathered in slimy yellow-green Odomos. I remember waking up mornings when it would be chilly and we’d have our sheets tucked all around us
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 12:42 AM | June 09,2009
Land on the hills is being snapped up by builders to be developed into cottages and flats for, well, people like us who just want to get away
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 12:37 AM | May 26,2009
This 15th Lok Sabha has the highest number of women representatives in Parliament since Independence; with 59 women MPs--most of them in the bahu/beti category--we’re just above 10%
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 11:56 PM | May 11,2009
He has the right to an opinion on the problems--terrorism, farmer suicides, crime--faced by India. But by subverting one of the last few untainted symbols of hope, of aspiration left in this country, he’s not doing anybody a favour
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 09:48 PM | April 27,2009
The real fight for who will rule India will begin only after 16 May when the results are in and some murky closed-door negotiations for numbers and allies get under way
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 01:15 AM | April 14,2009
Some 60 years later, our ongoing resentment has its basis in the fact that though English is spoken by only a fraction of our population, it is the language of the social and economic elite
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 12:48 AM | March 31,2009
As a society, we’d rather keep up the pretence of the happy, undivided Indian family than even admit that incest exists within our confined doors
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 10:46 PM | March 16,2009
Ironically, the problems that plagued the Janata Party in 1977 continue to plague the Third Front in 2009
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 09:55 PM | March 02,2009
With his stunning Oscar win, Rahman reaffirms the same message to emerge as a new role model for young Indian Muslims
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 10:29 PM | February 16,2009
Gandhi’s life and teachings go beyond our national boundaries to the realm of global discourse
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 01:15 AM | February 03,2009
In another few days, we’ll be dealing with Valentine’s Day hoodlums who will vandalize card shops and terrorize young boys and girls
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 01:15 AM | January 19,2009
The gap between what we tell our children in theory and what we inflict on them in practice is huge
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 09:38 PM | January 05,2009
The political challenge that Omar faces is not so much creating jobs and roads so much as walking the tightrope between Kashmiri sub-nationalism and Indian nationalism
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Looking Glass | Namita Bhandare 10:28 PM | December 22,2008
The debate on VIP security-how much is too much, how should it be done, who ought to be protected, how do you objectively assess threat perceptions-is not new and has raged for nearly 25 years
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