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CJR — World of Paine

By nistha | Published: June 13, 2009
Today’s fea­ture– If Thomas Paine were alive today, there’s lit­tle doubt you would find him blog­ging from www.commonsense.org, chal­leng­ing con­cen­trated power, con­spic­u­ous wealth, and a cul­ture amus­ing itself to death. Paine would likely have cher­ished the chance to engage his read­ers in debate, and spur them to direct action for bet­ter gov­ern­ment and a more [...]
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Kudos to Slumdog, a look at its success at Golden Globes

By nistha | Published: January 12, 2009
the cast and crew at Golden Globes Rah­man wins the best music score, ‘Jai Ho’ indeed Here’s the trailer Also won Best Movie, Best Direc­tor and Screen­play (what else mat­ters any­ways!). A phe­nom­e­nal run. Lets see how Acad­emy treats it (the vot­ing process is alto­gether dif­fer­ent and over the years, the favorites at Globes are [...]
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People who defined 2008 — III

By nistha | Published: December 31, 2008
Ajmar Ali and Mum­bai attacks The dev­il­ish ter­ror­ist attacks resur­faced the wounds. The pic­ture of sole ter­ror­ist cap­tured must have cir­cu­lated a mil­lion times online and will keep haunt­ing the Indi­ans for a long time. More pic­tures here. Like Unlike
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