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14 March, 2007
“What do they do, dip them in Viagra?”
Do check out Maggie Van Ostrand’s superb essay on hair. (Via email from Gary Sellers.)
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Amit Varma in
The good life at 2:40 PM
Elephant in Kerala
So it’s about 10.45pm, and we’re headed in a tourist taxi to Siena Village, a resort a few kilometres…‘The Businessman Panicked’
I don’t know why, but I find this kind of funny. And what’s with the quote marks in that…
This Video Hurts the Sentiments of Hindu’s [sic] Across the World
Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
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The Hard Edges of Modern Lives
Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
