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| The ruins of victory |
| Life reasserts itself in unexpected ways in Hampi |
| To travel from Hospet village to Hampi, a distance of a mere 13 kilometres, is to leave behind the prosaic, familiar scenes of rural Karnataka. As you come upon Hampi, the ruins of what used to be Vijayanagara — or the city of victory — the landscape... |
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| No better, no worse |
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Sir — Wasn’t the Congress complaining not too long ago that the Bharatiya Janata Party was spending ... |
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| Reality check |
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Sir — Rudrangshu Mukherjee is right in saying that the books Jawaharlal Nehru wrote represent his v ... |
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| Paper chase |
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Sir — The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education’s pledge to the Calcutta high court tha ... |
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| VISION ON THE MOVE |
| Historians
are in conflict about how an individual should
be judged: by his achievements or by his vision.
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How vainly men themselves amaze/ To win the palm, the oak, or bays;/ And their uncessant labours see/ Crown’d from some single herb or tree./ Whose short and narrow verged shade/ Does prudently their toils upbraid/ While all flow’rs and all trees do close/ To weave the garlands of repose. — ANDREW MARVELL
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| How
gay is their world? |
| By
day he worked for an NGO. But his nights were taken up
by raucous gay orgies. And the murder of Pushkin Chandra
in New Delhi last week will only reinforce the vicious
stereotype about homosexuals. Avijit Ghosh reports
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