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All we are and all we aspire to be: C Premkumar on the appeal of his fan favourite ‘Meiyazhagan’
Australia cap on foreign student intake hit will Indians hard
India’s food plate and palate have changed – but anxieties old and new persist
Interview: Who holds the cards in the Maharashtra election?
Crushing cycle of poverty, trafficking, domestic violence: Underbelly of Assam’s verdant tea gardens
Interview: How the 16th-century Basilica of Bom Jesus became an icon of Goan identity
Buddhism’s spread from India to China started with a Han emperor’s dream
West Bengal: Prohibitory orders imposed after communal clashes erupt in Murshidabad district
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Ramachandra Guha: 120 years later, Gandhi’s Phoenix Farm still has the power to move visitors
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Godmen
Against ‘buvabaji’: Narendra Dabholkar’s warning about the falsehood of so-called godmen
Narendra Dabholkar
· Aug 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm
‘Holy men’, theirs and ours: If India has Ram Rahim, Pakistan has its pirs and mullahs
Pervez Hoodbhoy
· Sep 05, 2017 · 08:30 pm
Readers’ comments: ‘Demonetisation does not seem to have been a fruitful exercise’
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· Sep 01, 2017 · 10:30 pm
Readers’ comments: ‘Mumbai’s relentless spirit seems to be allowing its civic body to become lax’
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· Aug 30, 2017 · 10:30 pm
Meet ‘Bullet Swamy’, the self-styled godman whose genitals were severed by a woman in Kerala
TA Ameerudheen
· May 22, 2017 · 08:00 am
The Sri Sri syndrome: What we should not forget about so-called gurus and godmen
TM Krishna
· Apr 04, 2016 · 05:30 pm
Three years on, Radhe Maa's anointment as high priest continues to roil key order of sadhus
Dhirendra K Jha
· Aug 10, 2015 · 11:30 am
