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| The casual moment |
| The mysterious, indefinable quality of poetry |
| I always find it a bit surprising when I hear the directors and producers of Hindi films say, ?This one is very good ? it?s almost as good as Hollywood.? I realize it?s probably a quality of professionalism, a technical finesse, they have in mind; be... |
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| Sex is for adults |
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Sir ? Is having sex, as an adult, a crime? Surely not. Should having sex on camera, for a consentin ... |
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| Facile comments |
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Sir ? Bibek Debroy?s analysis of Indian rape laws in ?Intending to outrage? (Feb 3) is skewed. He r ... |
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| Duty to give |
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Sir ? The manner in which the Centre has circumvented the Supreme Court in the ITC case by issuing ... |
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| EX LIBRIS |
| It is rather lovely when Audrey Hepburn does it in Tiffany?s, or Winona Ryder in Sak?s. And Hitchcock made Tippi Hedren do it...|
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What is beauty, but a well-dressed skull that loses colour with the slightest illness, and, before, death robs it of everything, the grace of its external and apparent surface is mortified by the years in such a way that, if eyes could penetrate within beauty, they could watch it only full of horror?
? ANT?NIO VIEIRA
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| Can
the King save the Monarchy? |
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an old palace ploy, they say. By pitting noble notions
of democracy against the crime of insurgency, Nepal’s
King Gyanendra is simply flexing the muscles of his own
sovereignty. But he is underestimating the Maoists, reports
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