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Sanitation crusader Bindeshwar Pathak on tackling manual scavenging: ‘I cannot just sit and watch’
Y Ravindranath Rao
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Who was Soumitra Chatterjee’s favourite athlete? Hint: think cricket
Amitava Nag
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Remembering Irrfan, the ‘mystical minstrel always in search of the meaning of life’
Roshmila Bhattacharya
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How all Indians (including teetotallers) end up consuming a lot of alcohol without knowing it
Krish Ashok
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How Sai Paranjpye found the ‘eccentric, lovable and unforgettable characters’ for her comedy ‘Katha’
Sai Paranjpye
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What influences led architect Balkrishna Doshi to design ‘a campus with no doors’?
Parul Sheth
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Policy decisions, photography and the octopus: When Rajiv Gandhi and family visited Lakshadweep
Wajahat Habibullah
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Book excerpt: How Parveen Babi disarmed (and alarmed) journalists during her early years in showbiz
Karishma Upadhyay
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Former Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena in her own words: ‘I will not disappoint you’
Gunjan Saxena with Kiran Nirvan
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When Shakuntala Devi interviewed a closeted man about to be married: ‘I’ve a duty towards my family’
Shakuntala Devi
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How the movies celebrated Mahatma Gandhi, who thought that cinema was ‘a sinful technology’
Narendra Kaushik
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Floyd Cardoz on the joys of Indian food: ‘So much to discover, so much to acknowledge’
Floyd Cardoz
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This is the book for which the Sanatan Sanstha filed a Rs 10-crore defamation suit – and lost
Dhirendra K Jha
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Mandira Bedi’s secret to fitness: ‘Be kind to yourself and yet, firm in resolve’
Mandira Bedi
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How a cafe owner and Rajiv Gandhi contributed to Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV show ‘Ramayan’
Prem Sagar
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How Doordarshan used foreign visits and public meetings to sell Rajiv Gandhi as a ‘man of action’
Amrita Shah
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How Bollywood ‘Bad Man’ Gulshan Grover suffered through Hollywood: ‘You became a face in the crowd’
Gulshan Grover
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1980s revisited: How the VCR changed my social life and made me a Very Important Person
Janhavi Samant
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Catch me if you can: The American smuggler who left Indian police red-faced twice in the 1960s
Abeer Kapoor
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When Lisa Ray auditioned for a James Bond film: ‘What am I doing here?’
Lisa Ray