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Saturday, April 25, 1998
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Build Houses, Not Backlog
The real estate industry in the city is passing through one of its worst phases primarily due to the skewed policies of successive governments over the last few decades. Since 1991, economic liberalisation has been infused into almost all industries - automobile, aviation, banking. Real estate is the only crucial sector left out.
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Lewd jokes, louder applause
If Pramod Naval kar had seen the crowds at the Birla Matushree Sabhagraha on Sunday night for the last show of Parayee Nari, Lage Pyari, the politician in him would have been worried. There were men, women, children in serpentine queues waiting to watch a play which had been banned, following Navalkar's orders, by the Stage Performances Scrutiny Board for being ``overtly obscene.
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A ship-sized hole in the landscape
When reports last came in, box office queues for the movie of the decade are still serpentine. Several weeks running and people are still flocking to the cinema halls and prints are reported to be in short supply. With Titanic fever raging all around I was reminded of our own little shipwreck. Not so dramatic and certainly nowhere near as glamorous, it was, in its own way, a pretty exciting event in our lives.
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They want to be loved
Seinfeld is a dark little show that's full of bright colours. The characters are cynical, selfish freaks, yet the star is so reverential of what makes great comedy and so generous a performer that he has the fewest lines and plays the straight man. It came as something of a shock, then, to learn that Jerry Seinfeld had demanded and received copy approval on his profile in the current Vanity Fair.
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