Shiv Visvanathan

Apr 26, 2010
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Shiv Visvanathan

Gandhi, between hate & cliché

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Immaculate lives

Birthdays and anniversaries often become occasion for hagiography. A full-blooded man who should be seen as a collection of hypothesis congeals into a saint.

The Lalitha effect

My aunt Lalitha died this week. She would have turned 103 this year. She was a remarkable woman but few will write about her.

Battling rain-induced inertia to see luminescent art

I am sure I must have been a peacock or a Malhar raga in some previous birth, for this weather is my absolute favourite. The green of the tree tops juxtaposed against the glistening skies laden with droplets of resurgence make my heart soar and like the earth bursting forth, my creative levels too touch an all-time high in this weather.

A dhamakedaar debut

The upcoming film Madras Café as we know, stars John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri. However, this Shoojit Sircar directed flick will also see a host of debutants making their presence felt. Among them is model-turned-actress Rashi Khanna who plays John’s wife in the film, while John plays intelligence agent Captain Vikram Singh.

Fables for democracy

Democracy is sometimes compared to an onion. As we peel the layers, sometimes in tears, we get a different sense of its meanings and textures. Scale and size become crucial to democracy.

MLB slaps tainted A-Rod with 211-game suspension

Alex Rodriguez was suspended to the end of the 2014 season and three other All-Stars were also handed bans as 13 players were punished by Major League Baseball on Monday for their role in a doping scandal which has rocked the sport.

India's smallest panchayat at Daman and Diu gets its 1st elected head

Daman: The newly created panchayat of Diu, the smallest in the country, got its first president today.
Sashikant Solanki was elected unopposed as the first president of Diu panchayat, which has eight

‘No treatment yet for MERS’

The BMC has received a second circular from the state health department with regards to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Pocket planes test your Patience

NimbleBit’s latest entry in the iOS app store is Pocket Planes.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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