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Ghulam Ahmed centenary: My brief encounter with the legend
I met Ghulam Ahmed saheb only once, but four decades later the moment remains enshrined in my mind. I was holding additional charge of sports at The Hindu and Sportstar when the latter introduced a...
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Hedy Lamarr was a rare combination of beauty and brains
Imagine a Hollywood stunner coming up with an invention that has turned the world of communications on its head – a technology that has become the forerunner of today’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Not many...
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Fascinating tale of ‘The Great Strangler’—a thug who slayed 719 people
This is the story of Ameer Ali whose exploits during the 19th century formed part of the native folklore of central and south India. A dreaded leader of a gang of thugs, Ameer Ali had confessed to...
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Doyen of Telugu cinema, NTR ruled Andhra Pradesh in shades that shocked and...
‘You may win a dozen Oscars or Padma awards or churn out countless jubilee hits, but you can never be a god. Because one and only one man in Indian Cinema has that divine aura – Nandamuri Taraka Rama...
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Remembering Nasreen, a little girl blinded by botched surgery in Hyderabad’s...
This is the story of an adorable little baby whose dream of a happy life of playfulness, was shattered, rudely and irreparably. The four-year old child was diagnosed with a diseased eye. Doctors at...
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