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| Imperial legacies |
| Is “eternal” a word that could be used of Calcutta? |
| “In Bengal to move at all is hardly ever done/ But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.” These are the last lines of the song; by the time it arrives at these lines, it’s made its way through various putatively siesta-prone cultures: “Th... |
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| Perks of the job |
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Sir — The knowledge that our members of parliament have run up unpaid bills worth crores does not s ... |
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| Elusive trophy |
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Sir — In spite of producing hundreds of films every year, an Indian film is yet to win an Oscar. We ... |
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| STATE OF TERROR |
| The terror in Madrid is a reminder that within the structure of the modern state, there is no easy way to break the cycle cr...| Read.. |
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America — rather, the United States — seems to me to be a Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colourful; given to extravagant speech and gestures, its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment, volatile.
— EDNA FERBER
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Minority report |
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shade of saffron. As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally at Kanyakumari for
the start of L.K. Ad... | Read.. |
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