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Adaptations of international shows not able to retain their charm
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15.3.2010 |
DNA: Top News |
| Some of the big international reality show formats adapted for Indian television started with a bang but fizzled out soon. |
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Scot makes history after winning right to not specify gender
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15.3.2010 |
Oneindia.in: News |
London, Mar 15 (ANI): A Scot is said to have made history after winning the right not to specify gender and to instead have "Sex Not Specified" on his birth certificate. |
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Scot makes history after winning right to not specify gender
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15.3.2010 |
New Kerala: World News |
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Cold Comfort
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15.3.2010 |
Books |
| For an anthology that contours the most life-affirming of relationships, this is a cold, bleak book. |
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Missing markets in India
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14.3.2010 |
Mint: Our View |
| As RBI deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath pointed out last month, India has missing markets, especially for finance. There are tradeoffs between completing these markets and ensuring stability |
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Of Fantasy and Fiction
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14.3.2010 |
IE: Kolkata |
| As China Mieville reads out from his forthcoming book Kraken, snatches of well-articulated expressions catch your ears. |
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For the adult of 14
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14.3.2010 |
Telegraph: Calcutta |
| Melvin Burgess looked tired. India had been hectic: an arts and literary festival in Mumbai in the first week of February and then Calcutta for British Council's Lit Sutra programme that introduces contemporary British writers to the Indian audience. His teenage novel Junk (1996) won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian children's fiction prize. |
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Pre-emptive action
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13.3.2010 |
Hindustan Times: Views |
| As part of her English composition exercise, our eight-year-old is required to write stories. Each assignment specifies – in the tradition of the best of genre fiction – whether she should write a ‘funny’ or ‘scary’ or ‘adventure’ story, writes Soumya Bhattacharya. |
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Death Star may wipe out Earth
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13.3.2010 |
International |
| London, March 12: In what sounds like a chilling script of a Hollywood science fiction, scientists have claimed that an invisible star, five times the size of Jupiter, might be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking deadly comets towards the Earth.
According to Nasa scientists, the brown dwarf star is up to five times the size of Jupiter and could be responsible for mass extinctio
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Ebert’s 100 Great Movies
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13.3.2010 |
Entertainment |
| Pulp Fiction
Film release in 1994
Review written on June 10, 2001
Dialogue drives Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction — dialogue of such high quality it deserves comparison with other masters of spare, hard-boiled prose. QT finds a way to make the words humorous without ever seeming to ask for a laugh. Like them, he combines utilitarian prose with flights of rough poetry and wicked fancy.
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Invisible star shooting comets at Earth?
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13.3.2010 |
TOI: All Headlines |
| Invisible star shooting comets at Earth? |
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Aspiring writer?
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13.3.2010 |
Hindu:Metro Plus: Bangalore |
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Best sellers
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13.3.2010 |
Hindu:Metro Plus: Visakhapatnam |
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Games writers play
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13.3.2010 |
Hindu:Metro Plus: Mangalore |
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Games writers play
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13.3.2010 |
Hindu:Metro Plus: Vijayawada |
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Decoding Delhi
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13.3.2010 |
Hindu:Metro Plus: Vijayawada |
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GMR bows to fishermen�s demand
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13.3.2010 |
Deccan Herald: State |
| GMR bows to fishermen�s demand |
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Mantel's Wolf Hall wins fiction prize
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13.3.2010 |
Hindustan Times: Lifestyle |
| Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, last year's winner of the Man Booker Prize in London, has been honoured with the National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction in New York. |
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Old bird gives literary birthday treat
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12.3.2010 |
Hindustan Times: Lifestyle |
| With snappy newsletters, an enterprising publicity department, book launches that seemed to have catered for a picnic and writers who were, for the first time in their lives, coaxed into being public speakers, Penguin India took desi publishing out of the crowded alleys of Daryaganj and into the limelight. |
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When the truth is graphic
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12.3.2010 |
Mint: Latest |
| Non-fiction graphic narratives are carving their niche in India. Comics guru Joe Sacco, too, might soon be sketching the Maoists |
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[fredericknoronha :: Corruption]
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