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| Communism’s other bastion |
| In spite of similarities, West Bengal cannot match Kerala in development |
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hard for an Indian of my generation to call Calcutta
Kolkata, and harder still for him to refer to Trivandrum
as Thiruvananthapuram. Bengal’s capital I know
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| Diamonds and rust |
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Sir —While it is certainly raining diamonds for Bharat Shah, the efficiency of the Mumbai police s ... |
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| Celebrating a legend |
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Sir — In the euphoria surrounding the birthday celebration of Lata Mangeshkar, it is easy to forget ... |
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| SHOW OF EXCELLENCE |
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time, the morning did not show the day. For
an inhabitant of Calcutta, the build-up to
the Pujas was traumatic. Moving from any...|
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The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiabiality. We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if...he knows how to verfy the proposition which it purports to express — that is, if he knows what observations would lead him, under certain conditions, to accept the proposition as being true, or reject it as being false. — ALFRED J. AYER
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