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| Said and the Saidians |
| A very fine scholar, but not a great one |
| The United States of America is not only the leading economic and military power in the world, but also the leading intellectual power. A vast majority of the Nobel laureates in the sciences teach in American universities. Till about 1980, the Europe... |
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| Half-way house |
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The left is behaving like the bride who consents
to marriage but refuses to change her got ... |
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| Anything but equal |
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Sir ? In ?Not by science alone? (May 10), Dipankar Gupta writes, ?modernity allows for greater tole ... |
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| Nothing serious |
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Sir ? The attack on the government official, Shakuntala Verma, was shocking (?Curse cuts off hands? ... |
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| SONG OF THE NEW ROAD |
| A ceremonial remembrance should, ideally, also be a reawakening. When the anniversary is of a book or a film or a painting, t...|
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| Think out of the box |
| T. Muivah’s suggestion —
a special federal relationship with India — may well
be the solution to the Naga dispute, writes Sanjib Baruah
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Reception in a state of distraction...finds in film its true means of exercise. The film with its shock effect meets this mode of reception halfway. The film makes the cult value recede into the background not only by putting the public in position of the critic, but also by the fact that at the movies this position requires no attention. The public is an examiner, but an absent-minded one. ? WALTER BENJAMIN
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| IN
HIS OWN IMAGE |
| Shyam
Benegal refuses to fit to mould. Yet, he is trying to
morph into a mainstream filmmaker. Much depends on the
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