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In June, actor R. Madhavan turned 51. This called for some serious introspection. After all, for most male actors from Bollywood, this is the 'definitive milestone' when they are legitimately entitled to romance leading ladies half their age and pull offage-defying stunts on screen. And so, before the subject even comes up, Madhavan “clears the air”. “No, you will not see me wooing younger women on screen. As much as my aging bones and legs would like that, I don't think my mind will allow it,” says the actor who moved on gracefully from his chocolate boy image in Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein (2001) and Rang De Basanti (2006) to that of a stylish and serious encounter specialist in Vikram Vedha (2017) and a hulking angry man in Saala Khadoos (2016).
“Very early on in my career I decided to make my content age appropriate,” he says, referring to his upcoming comedy-drama on Netflix, Decoupled, in which he plays a sarcastic and delinquent middle-aged Arya Iyer, whose “uncompromised sense of objectivity in life” threatens his marriage to his CEO wife (Surveen Chawla). The couple decides to call it quits, but keeps finding reasons to be together, even as they navigate a maze of issues that typically symbolise today's urban marriages. The series, created by Manu Joseph and directed by Hardik Mehta, is slated to release on December 17.
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Two-horse race
Can the NC-Congress alliance reshape the future of Jammu and Kashmir?
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Man-eaters don't spare women
Critics say Narendra Modi’s decade-long rule has been one of jobless growth. Factories produced more, companies earned more, owners profited more, the government earned more; but fewer hands were hired, or those who were hired got work for fewer days. Putting the last two together, economists said the Indian economy generated fewer ‘man-days’.
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Decolonising the mindset
The vision of a Viksit Bharat hinges on India T breaking from the shackles of a colonial mindset and embodying the freedom of being unapologetically Indian. The laws of any nation are the cornerstone of its growth. The legal system offers the stability and adaptability essential for a country to thrive. The laws must be simple to understand and specific in their consequence.
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The making of India's Mr Difficult Words
When my publishers at Aleph invited me to put together a book on words and language, I hesitated for a brief moment.
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Couture's creepy corridors
If one is spending a summer in New York, any summer in New York, an absolute must-do is to spend an afternoon at the city’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the edge of Central Park, just gawking in gobsmacked awe at the annual fashion exhibition the museum’s Costume Institute puts together.
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Stree 2 has given us hope
The unprecedented success of Stree 2 is the best news we have had in the recent times and with an unabashedly feminist agenda, has comprehensively out-performed Sandeep Reddy Vanga's toxic masculine star-studded Animal at the box office is (to me, at least) kind of the cinematic equivalent of Awadhesh Prasad winning Ayodhya-it redeems my faith in the inherent decency of Indians.
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BRANDS BEYOND RAMPS
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RESERVOIR OF WORRIES
India has a robust dam management systém on paper, but inadequate maintenance and climate change pose serious threats
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INTER-STATE ISSUES HAVE NO EFFECT ON DAM SAFETY
INTERVIEW: KUSHVINDER VOHRA INTERVIEW Chairman, Central Water Commission
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DAMS SHOULD BECOME ONE OF THE WAYS TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
INTERVIEW - ERIC HALPIN dam and levee consultant