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What the fiddich! Why are books so fat?

Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A few days ago, a friend said he doesn’t read fiction. This reminded me of......

Ruchira Gupta: The icon we called 'Kiddy'

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......

Britain's Nigel Farage quits as leader of pro-Brexit party

Nigel Farage, who campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union, on Monday quit as the leader of the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, saying he wanted his "life back" as he has fulfilled......

Gandhi, a great Briton

What do a witch, Romans, Queen Victoria, George Washington, Julius Caesar, punk rocker Sid Vicious, Sir Charles Isham, (who introduced the garden gnome to Britain) and Mahatma Gandhi have in......

The Left, the Right and us

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......

LSE head resigns over financial links with Gaddafi

London School of Economics (LSE) head Sir Howard Davies has resigned from his post over his institution's controversial financial links with Libya.The university has also revealed that it had......

Manorathangal Review: Anatomy of A Visionary Mindscape

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......

Isn't Tabu GORGEOUS?

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,......

Met Gala 2019: Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz rock the pink carpet

The fashion industry's top-billed event, the annual Met Gala, is an invitation-only fundraiser held for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala is held on the first......

Secret Superstar removes the veil from Bollywood

'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......

Celebrating Nicole Kidman on her 50th birthday!

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......

Still don't understand why BCCI was upset with me, says Lorgat

Former International Cricket Council president and current Cricket South Africa CEO Haroon Lorgat says he is still not aware why the Board of Control for Cricket in India is upset with him but......

'ICC revamp is entirely motivated by money'

Lord Harry Woolf, the former judge whose review of the ICC's governance structure was rejected, has lambasted the proposed revamp of the body which would cede executive decision-making to India,......

Atherton criticises BCCI, ECB and CA move to take control of ICC

Former England captain Michael Atherton openly criticised the move by the cricket boards of England, India and Australia to take control of the International Cricket Council and also enjoy bigger......

'India, England decision to play Pakistan at neutral venues a trap'

The cricket community in Pakistan has reacted cautiously to reports that the Indian and English Boards were willing to play Pakistan at neutral venues with some asking the PCB not to fall in the......

'ICC must implement reforms to address corruption in cricket'

Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has said that the ICC must tackle corruption both on and off the pitch that challenge the integrity of cricket by strengthening......

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