By Radhika Bhirani
She gulps down 'desi tharra', smokes pot, mouths expletives, talks naughty, exposes like never before and doesn't mind some sultry moves -- that's the new age, raunchy, naughty and bold Hindi film heroine for you.
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The bold, naughty Bollywood heroine comes of age
Land of gods and ghouls: the Hindu connect in a Muslim nation
By Minu Jain
The stylised figures from Hindu mythology and gnomes, fanged demons and animals, some towering, some not so: exquisitely crafted stone sculptures are as much a part of this Indonesian island - where Balinese Hindus comprise the majority of the island's population in this Muslim-majority nation - as the famed sun, sand and sea spray.
Doctor by day, musician and writer by night
By Anurag Dey
The scalpel gives way to a harmonium and the surgeon in 80-year-old Samir K. Gupta steps aside for the artist as he gives musical life to some poems of "Gitanjali" by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
The charms of India's black magic capital
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Imagine a tiger lazily walking behind you like a pet dog or a man bleating like a sheep instead of talking. Hard to believe, but then black magic practitioners and elderly people in the small roadside village of Mayong claim such things are possible.
Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet
By Prasanto K. Roy
In just 24 hours, in the Facebook alumni group of St Stephen's College, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal's ratings crashed faster than that of US President Barack Obama or what former telecom minister A. Raja, now in judicial custody over second generation (2G) spectrum case, ever had.
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