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Environment

Wheels of pollution

No one is tracking the substantial amount of lead that escapes into the environment from car tyres THE CAMPAIGN against lead-based products has failed to target one of the ...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Entertainment Raises Cash In Memory Of Boy Nine

A NIGHT of Bollywood entertainment in Hampshire raised more than £3,000 for charity in memory of a nine-year old boy who died of an asthma attack. A packed out crowd ...

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Health

Robert De Niro: Me & My Gay Dad

The legendary actor shares the story of his father, an artist who struggled for recognition as the city changed around him Many of us think we know Robert De Niro. We know ...

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Sustainable Development

Saving the poor

It was a curious irony. The same day Gabriel Garcia Marquez died, I met another famous Latin writer-the prolific and talented Isabel Allende-giving a talk at a friend&rsquo...

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TV

Curtains For Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (BALH)

“We have an expression that when a show is running out of original stories, the producers will make a “jump the shark” episode, when something completely ...

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Thought Factory

MISSING, THE IRANI JOINT

As B Merwan opposite Grant Road Station (East) downs it shutters, a flood of memories takes over the locals and regulars at Merwans, as it was commonly referred to. Minoo S...

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Thought Factory

A Gentleman Rocker

Woodstock and Nandu Bhende are inextricably linked in my memory. When the film was showing at Bombay’s Eros Cinema, teenaged audiences filled show after show for its ...

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Bollywood

Mother Teresa’s Gnarled Hands Spur Cricket’s Waugh to Charity

The tiny hunched frame and gnarled hands of Mother Teresa are etched in former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh’s memory. Eager to see the realities of life in ...

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Hollywood

Mrs Brown’s Boy Gary Hollywood’s John Hartson charity gig in Killearn

Mrs Brown’s Boys’ actor Gary Hollywood and rock’n’roll bagpipers the Red Hot Chilli Pipers star at a fundraiser in Killearn for ex-Celtic player Joh...

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Thought Factory

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

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