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| Clinging to identity |
| Britain cannot quite handle its cultural extremists |
| In the Fifties when Britain had National Service, my friends joked about the soldier who tried to get out of Sunday church service by professing Islam. But when his apparently acquiescent sergeant woke him up before dawn for namaz, followed by... |
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| It takes all kinds |
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Sir — In a coalition, we normally designate ministers by the party to which they belong. But from t ... |
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| Tongue twisters |
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Sir — Bibek Debroy’s article, “All this hue and cry” (Aug 24), struck a chord. Anyone comparing, sa ... |
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| CHILDREN’S GAMES |
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bizarre juxtapositions. Last week, the top story in a Bengali ...| Read.. |
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| Trampling upon truth |
| There are things in life which we accept as gospel truths without ever questioning their veracity. Two such are that truth al... |
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I have always had the greatest contempt for novels written with a purpose. Fiction should render, not draw morals. But...I sinned against my gods to the extent of saying that I was going — to the level of the light vouchsafed me — to write a work that should have for its purpose the obviating of all future wars.— FORD MADOX FORD
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| ODDS
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| Jagdish Sodha will have
you know that he is an honourable man. The problem — if you can call it that
— is that he has a great many friends. “But is knowing... |
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