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A poet's obsession with death in the afternoon of time
The launch of the English translation of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's autobiography In the Afternoon of Time was a short affair, with a lot of time spent just sighing at the sight of Amitabh Bachchan and admiring his voice. Amitabh Bachchan did not spend more than 10 minutes reading out extracts in the original Hindi. Dr Rupert Snell spent about the same amount of time reading from his English translation.
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A "titanic" dinner, to sail ahead on 10th anniversary
The ship is long gone, but its famous dinner is still being readied, albeit after 86 years! Cashing in on the hype following the success of James Cameron's movie Titanic, a hotel in the Capital is attempting to recreate the dinner served on RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912, just hours before it sank.
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Eye of the Tiger
The tiger is an ode to the majesty of Nature's genius. From the frozen peaks of the Himalayas to the sun-scorched deserts of Rajasthan, from the green humid forests of Assam to the warm blue waters of the Indian Ocean -- the aura of the tiger always precedes you.
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Battling against time and men
A maze of ugly illegal constructions and trash heaps encircle the grand arches of the Begumpuri mosque, the earliest example of a Jama Masjid or congregational mosque found in this country. Nobody really cares, nobody lifts a finger as the batter walls of the Tughlaq monument decay.
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