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| What the stars foretell |
| After the elections, the big parties might not find things to their liking |
| The media give the miss to the base of the polity and focus on the superstructure. On election eve, the Ayarams and the Gayarams — along with the Ayisitas and the Gayisitas — monopolize the media. Their comings and goings are supposed to be earthshak... |
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| Dirty minds |
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Sir — Twenty-three years of teaching has convinced me that teachers in West Bengal — though they ma ... |
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| Noon break |
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Sir — Mulayam Singh Yadav’s order — now withdrawn — to close down schools after 12 noon on Fridays ... |
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| NO SUGAR |
| West Bengal has an acute aversion to sugar and spice and all things nice. According to the rather arch nursery rhyme, that is...| Read.. |
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| WRONG TUNE |
| Singing a different tune before elections
is familiar stuff for politicians. But when a man of music does that, the notes
can be discordant ...| Read.. |
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| Saving our little ones |
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Even as thousands of children across India were administered polio drops under the Pulse Polio vaccination programme on Febru... | Read.. |
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now…for I shall not pass this way again.
— STEPHEN GRELLET
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