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December 2011
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Dev Anand - A memoir
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By Shekhar Gupta
We all know the adjectives that will be repeated often as tributes pour in for Dev Anand: evergreen, ageless, romantic, debonair and so on. We all also know that he romanced three generations of Indian women. My mother loved him, and my daughter adored him. And women of my generation, well! Watch any of his movies, even the ones he did starring himself as some sort...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want,...
– Will Rogers
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September 2011
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The Man who dares!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeps could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again… who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who...
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August 2011
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A Shifting Culture
It is not so much about whether life will change, it’s more about how life will change and who will really benefit. From a life of sustainability to one of economic dependency and uncertainty within the span of just a single generation. Yousef belongs to the Gujjar community, a semi-nomadic group living in the valleys and mountains of the Kashmiri Himalayas, India. The...
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