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Sarita Ravindranath

Mallika Srinivasan: India's tractor queen

Behind the success of many farmers across 75 countries as varied as the US, India and Yugoslavia is a woman from Chennai. Mallika...

Sarita Ravindranath

I feel the safest as an actor on an Anjali Menon set: Parvathy

Late last year, actor Parvathy went where no young female actor is supposed to go - She expressed an opinion. At the IFFK, Parvathy made...

Sarita Ravindranath

Kiran Nagarkar on Extras, sexual repression & humourless Indians

Author Kiran Nagarkar frequently tells me he's 900 years old. I don't bother to verify, but I'm glad that for a man who feels 900, he...

Sarita Ravindranath

These walls can't stand forever: Ali Sethi

Ali Sethi, 25, is nursing a wound when I meet him at his hotel in Chennai. The Pakistani writer isn't sure how or when he hurt his toe....

Sarita Ravindranath

Life ain’t like an Agatha Christie novel: Ian Rankin

For Ian Rankin, it was never enough to know who killed whom and why. Not even when he was 11. The best-selling crime fiction writer does...

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Playback singing has begun to bore me: Sonu

He is often referred to as India's best playback singer. But Sonu Niigaam, 35, says his sole agenda in life is to die a happy man -- not...

Sarita Ravindranath

Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti: 'Maoists have the power to implode India'

2009 interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun

Sarita Ravindranath

Airports, critics & a fish: Conversation with Alain de Botton

He has followed the blood-soaked journey of a tuna fish from the Indian Ocean in the Maldives to a dinner table in London for his book,...