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Cyrus Broacha
The clandestine Bindra
Jai Hind, congratulations and all that.And yes, a very happy b’day to Abhinav Bindra although I have no idea when his birthday is.

•  Ready for Samarkand 2020?
•  Staging a walkout
•  It’s a sock-ing story
Suresh Nair
The show must go on!
Death is serious business. But in a society as self-obsessed as ours it often becomes a Woody Allen comedy.

•  Director’s diary
•  Batman ki maa!
•  The horse trading hungama!
Sukhwant Basra
False start in sprint?
A ‘what if?’ has been introduced to the final standing of the women’s 100m result of the Beijing Olympics with it coming to light that US athlete Tori Edwards may have had a false start.

•  Primetime fight
•  Jamaican jamboree
•  Olympians miffed about the kit
Arjun Parthasarathy
Cautious trading seen after sell-offs
Caution will rule the bond market this week given the sharp sell-off seen last week. Bond yields moved up by 35 basis points

•  Rally in bonds set to gather steam
•  Trading expected to remain volatile
•  Market to look ahead at policy impact
B Krishnakumar
Ranged action may have downward bias
The possibility of a rally to 15500-15700 is still intact and remains the favoured view. The rally to this target zone may get protracted owing to the extension of the corrective process.

•  Short-term outlook remains bullish
•  Sensex seen cruising towards 15700
•  Sensex could head for 15500-15700
Vijay L Bhambwani
Avoid silver till breakout
The markets witnessed a decline in turnover, partly due to the shorter week and mostly due to declining values.

•  Market sentiments will spin around the crude pivot
•  Trading to remain subdued as long as crude keeps falling
•  Crude to remain under pressure this week too
Ranjona Banerji
Moon madness and all that jazz
The week ended with a lunar eclipse, which created some excitement for all those celebrating Rakhi because that meant that you couldn't tie a string on your brother now or then or whenever.

•  When home was on Altamount Road
•  This is my excuse and I’m sticking to it
•  Aliens live in Bandra
Arati R. Jerath
A saga of foul-ups
It’s tragic that a piece of forest land measuring 39.88 hectares should rewind Jammu and Kashmir back to the era of hartals, bandhs and azaadi fervour.

•  Maya learns to charm
•  Somnath’s tell-all memoirs
•  Reaching out for support
Sathya Saran
Requiem for unsung soldiers
High up in the Himalayas, in windy Drass, which is in Kargil to be exact, are two Army-run spots that could well become tourist highlights for travellers passing that way..

•  We must keep the hills alive
•  The nature of all things
•  A sincere request to all men
Ayaz Memon
How China went for gold
In his new book, Fareed Zakaria comes up with these interesting facts and figures about the economic development in China.

•  Phelps, the 100m winner will be the hero
•  How to encash this gold is the challenge
•  Why Singh is still king
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It’s tragic that a piece of forest land measuring 39.88 hectares should rewind Jammu and Kashmir back to the era of hartals, bandhs and azaadi fervour.
High up in the Himalayas, in windy Drass, which is in Kargil to be exact, are two Army-run spots that could well become tourist highlights for travellers passing that way..
In his new book, Fareed Zakaria comes up with these interesting facts and figures about the economic development in China.
As records tumble and the world enjoys the spectacle of the Beijing Olympic games, it is the story of the young Chinese girl Yang Peiyi that has caught everyone’s attention.