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| The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel wh... |
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| MISPLACED HONOUR |
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I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree/ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk/ Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,/ But dipped its top and set me down again./ That would be good both going and coming back./ One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
— ERICH FROMM
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