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| Layers of history |
| Most Indian street names honour little men for the wrong reasons |
| The histories of Indian cities are contained in the names of their streets and squares. These come in layers that have to be peeled off, one by one, to reveal the names that once lay below. A street might have been named after a colonial proconsul; l... |
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| Heal thyself |
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Sir ? It was a flagrant violation of medical ethics by the doctor at the Murshidabad health centre ... |
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| HANG DEMOCRACY! |
| It takes little time to make a blunder ? but a great deal more to undo it. It is understandable that a man of culture would f...|
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| Worshipping false gods |
| While L.K. Advani is busy explaining what he meant by describing the destruction of the Babri Masjid as ?the saddest day of h... |
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The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower. ? P.B. SHELLEY
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| STEP
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Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Calcutta has a mayor with
a knack for quickly reading people, situations ? and maybe
even the... | Read.. |
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