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| Carnival of turncoats |
| In Indian upper-crust politics, morals have become irrelevant |
| The spectacle would be amusing if it were not so sickening. A great carnival is on in Tagore’s Santiniketan; the purloining of the poet’s Nobel medallion has provided an excellent opportunity for political specimens to congregate and shed pretenders’... | Read.. |
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| Tread with care |
| Sir — The more subcontinental cricketers are treated as royalty, the more reason they have to be c ... | Read.. |
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| Ignoble |
| Sir — The theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medal and other memorabilia from the Uttarayan compl ... | Read.. |
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| KEEP HIM OUT |
| “It means that the state should have no religion of its own and no one could proclaim to make the state have one such or end...| Read.. |
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| POLL SHINE |
| A test match has only once had political implications. This was when the Bodyline series nearly snapped diplomatic ties betw...| Read.. |
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| A road much travelled |
| bloodshed is the rule in this part of the world. What is different is that this time, Israel has assassinated the blind and ... | Read.. |
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| I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,/ neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,/ all the misery of manila folders and mucilage,/ desolation in immaculate public places. — T. ROETHKE |
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