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| The East as career |
| Transfiguring the mundane |
| What does the ?exotic? in ?Are you exoticizing your subject for a Western audience?? ? a question asked indefatigably of Indians who write in English ? what does the word mean, or in which sense is it meant? Dictionaries will give you a range of mean... |
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| King of jokes |
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Sir ? Michael Jackson may not be the great entertainer that he was but he continues to amuse all th ... |
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| Trespassers beware |
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Sir ? Tarun Gogoi?s attempts to define ?Assamese?, and decide who are the indigenous people of the ... |
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| Special case |
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Sir ? I fully agree with Iti Misra?s letter, ?What a debut!? (May 6). But in the instance mentioned ... |
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| NECESSARY EVIL |
| It is hydra-headed, they say. The more platonic-minded call it protean. But the general idea is quite clear. Evil never dies,...|
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| Most of
my colleagues were -ists of one sort or another; and however
kind and friendly they might be, I, a man without a rag
of a label to cover himself with, could not fail to have
some of the uneasy fee- lings which must have beset the
historical fox when, after leaving the trap in which his
tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated
companions. So I took thought and invented what I conceived
to be the appropriate title of ?agnostic?. ? T.H. HUXLEY
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| Under
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probe ordered by finance minister P. Chidambaram has jerked
the controversial Centaur hotel buyover back into public
memory. Soumitra Dasgupta reports on how the deal was
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