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Bollywood attitude to World Cinema: I pee on you!
A studio executive's antics at Cannes reveal Bollywood's attitude toward the world: you watch your films and we’ll watch ours!
Dateline India: why Arundhati Roy's pants are on fire
Arundhati Roy's claim that foreign journalists in India are discouraged by their own publications from writing on the 'dark side' of India is fanciful - and demonstrably untrue.
Posted! Your reactions to our content
Outrage at the Prime Minister and horror at India's human organ market defined our reader comments today
Audience posts today
Baba Ramdev and the UPA government elicited the most opinion and debate on Firstpost today
Notes from a broken fast: why the 'other India' was there
A Firstpost postcard from the scene of Baba Ramdev's fast, capturing the hopes and aspirations of those who had come - before they were beaten away at midnight.
The Thieving Magpie
Sunandini Banerjee, collects images from a wide variety of sources and creates innovative, humourous digital collages—a potpourri or a medley or a luck bag, call it what you will.
Anna Hazare and co. walk tightrope after Ramdev's exit
Anna Hazare and other civil society leaders need to come down hard on the government for its raid on Ramdev but not kill its own Lokpal bill.
Ramdev vs Hazare: The politics of saffron and white
One is a saffron-clad messiah of health. The other a Gandhian high-priest in white. Together, they create a T-20 version of politics around corruption.
Firstpost welcomes its first community bloggers
Firstpost is happy to announce that Shining Path and Subir Ghosh, two of our readers, will begin blogging for us on a regular basis starting from today.
Looking for love and lingerie in modern India
Black lace intimates, transparent bras and satin girdles — wedding shopping in India gets daring, but knowledge of sex hasn't kept pace, finds NPR reporter Miranda Kennedy.
Posting your opinions
Baba Ramdev, Maran and corruption in general garnered the most response from readers today.
Food for thought: Why Baba Ramdev really wants to starve
The hunger strike is the VIP's activism of choice, and only works if you are an Anna Hazare or a Baba Ramdev. That's why the powerless opt for self-immolation.
Forget Marathi, Tamil, Bengali: your kid is English only
English now reigns supreme even within our homes. It is easy to blame the schools, but it is more often we, the urban professional class, who have spurned the language of our childhood.
You posted back
From a headline given to us by our Facebook community to comments on Baba Ramdev, corruption and Omar Abdullah, this is our selection of your comments, tweets and facebook posts in response to our content
A release date for The Hobbit! (and other web stories)
From the official announcement of the release date of "The Hobbit" to the finalists of the Wikimedia picture of the year contest, this is our selection of the news, images and multimedia that we liked on the web today.
Wikipedia's bold bid for World Heritage status
The Wikimedia Foundation plans to apply for a UNESCO World Heritage label. But can a virtual site claim to be “a masterpiece of human creative genius" of universal human value?
Sexy aliens and copyrighting flesh: On the interwebs today
A list of 9 of the sexiest movie aliens, uproar over Mike Tyson tattoo in the Hangover 2, a video that makes visualizations oh human data and other things we found interesting on the web today.
Trash your intuition; it only deceives you
How the illusions of our mind deceive us, and why we should never judge a book by its cover.
Super days: A remembrance of Bollywood past
Remember when Rajesh Khanna ruled the roost, Bobby was all the rage, and there was no such thing as Bollywood? Namita Gokhale takes a witty trip down memory lane.
How Mr Facebook makes a killing: he slits throats, kindly
Talk about the lifestyles of the rich and famous! Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge is to eat only what he kills.
Goodbye Onida devil, hello bionic man: Mapping gay desire in India
Gay images are everywhere these days in India from buff Bollywood stars to rocking gay parties in big cities. But the visibility hasn't demolished the closet, just made it better furnished.
Our readers write back
Our curation of your thoughts on Radiia, Ambani, Mirza and other content across Firstpost today
'My body blew up like a balloon' and other stories
From Oprah to people accidentally blowing up their bodies "like balloons" this is our pick of things we think you should be reading/watching on the internet today.
The cult of Jaya: return of the dark goddess
Jayalalithaa represents the awe of inscrutable power, of politics as persona created through distance, isolation and indifference.
The sacred symbolism of the IIT/IIM brand
IIT/IIM have become anointed symbols for the cult of middle class aspiration, replacing the neo-colonial public schools of yore. Who cares if they do world-class research or produce PhDs?
Would-be father? Your mood swings may be just natural
Women suffering from mood swings during pregnancy is rather known. But if their partners exhibit similar behavioural patterns, it’s time to get deeper. If findings of this study are anything to go by, would-be fathers get involved with their partners so much that they become more emotional.
The new threesome: Boy, girl and camera
In the age of Ragini MMS, Big Brother is not just watching. He is in bed with you and he wants to go viral.
Sabbatical-Lit: The year of living vicariously
Take a year off, do something odd, write a book about it. That seems to have become the strange new formula for literary success.
Thrill-lust and a game without soul: Let’s save cricket from its fans
After the Faustian deal between cricket and the Devil at the auction table four years ago, the game is no more the same. The dil maange more philosophy driving the IPL and Twenty20 cricket is killing the game’s beauty and vitality. Worse, it seems cricket can no more produce another Sachin Tendulkar.