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The woman who taunted Gaddafi

By Chindu Sreedharan
Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Image courtesy: Jan-Erik Ander

On the day when Gaddafi was threatening to “take the war to Europe”, I happened to be flipping through a Playboy publication. Sadly, this one didn’t have any engaging photographs. What it had, though, was impressions of Gaddafi by someone who provoked — no, taunted — him in flesh, and came away… »

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

By Chindu Sreedharan

The strange thing about the dancing world is that it is the only world I know where the customer is always wrong … Don’t do this, don’t do that, you’ve to do this, you’ve have to do that… the customer is always wrong. Donnie… »

Dateline Hastinapur

By Chindu Sreedharan
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Suppose, just suppose, there were newspapers when the Pandavas were slugging it out with the Kauravas. The equivalents of The Times of India and The Sun and The New York Times and the BBC. How would the Kurukshetra war and the events that led… »


Message from Mars 3

By Chindu Sreedharan
message from mars3

A negative inflection will make a disproportionately stronger impact on the receiver than the verbal content. So the dancer who… »

Beautiful, beautiful (?) me

By Chindu Sreedharan
beautiful me

Here’s a site that caters only to beautiful people. You upload your pix, and the members of the opposite sex… »

Message from Mars 2

By Chindu Sreedharan
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Productive communication produces a supportive climate where meaningful and problem-orientated exchanges can take place, and sets the stage for more… »

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