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Celeb journalism here to stay

Shobhaa’s Take Nov.06 : I plead guilty. Thirty odd years ago, I was encouraged by my then bossman, Nari Hira, to conceptualise another popular magazine, after having launched and run the path-breaking Stardust for a decade. Full story

Happy endings for nowhere boys

Kishwar Desai Nov.06 : At the recently-concluded London Film Festival, two outstanding films celebrated the lives of two young men which had astonishing similarities, though they lived more than 100 years apart. One, Bright Star, Full story

CERN: Will outcome match ambition?

S.H. Venkatramani
Nov.06 : There is an intriguing question mark over the resumption and continuation of the path-breaking experiments on fundamental particle physics at the Centre for European Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN had initiated a path-breaking project to observe and investigate the formation of matter in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, i.e. precisely during a time span of 10 seconds after the cosmic Big Bang explosion. By simulating the Big Bang in the laboratory, the physicists of our planet were hoping to gain invaluable insights into the creation and dissolution of matter, or, for that matter, anti-matter! Full story