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When Subir Roy met Ruchira Gupta at The Telegraph 35 years ago, she was not quite 20 and not a graduate.Today she is the indomitable founder of Apne Aap, which has touched the lives of over 21,000......
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Now, the world over, policymakers are dusting off their copies of Keynes' classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and figuring out whether there are any answers there to our......
Through Manorathangal, M T Vasudevan Nair makes himself available to a whole new generation of uninitiated viewers, who can familiarise themselves with his rich body of work and hope to learn a......
Adah does yoga in bed... Taapsee goes on holiday... Hrithik clicks a selfie... Please click on the images for a look at the stars. IMAGE: We don't see Tabu on social media too often,......
'The Muslim identity of the family appears incidental to the subject of the film...''The self-sacrificing, suffering mother film could have belonged to any religion.''The abusive father, who......
Happy Birthday, Nicole Kidman! When the leggy, red-haired, pale-skinned Aussie beauty took Hollywood and its biggest star by storm, she was doted on for her prettiness and promise. But somewhere in......
Big Eyes easily evokes a mix of fascination and empathy and you just can't stop looking, says Paloma Sharma. "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman," said Virginia Woolf. But such was not......