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| Rising from the ashes |
| Cricket is undergoing a revival in England. And the crowds are trickling back to the stadiums as the country gears up to take on Australia in the world’s oldest rubber. Shankar Sharma reports |
| And did those feet in ancient times walk upon England ’s mountains green. And were those Ashes on England ’s pleasant pastures seen.... | Read.. |
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| Past perfect, future tense |
| It takes some furious digging to get to the black leatherbound book, buried under a heap of second-hand Mills & Boon roma ... | Read.. |
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| Opening up in cyberspace |
| Reshma Sanyal, who works in an online learning company in Chennai, began blogging more than two years ago. “I started blogging because I was restless. I had a deeper need for acceptance and approval from random people I didn’t know existed.... | Read.. |
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| Cashew girls |
| Everyone calls them the cashew girls. It’s a well-known village on the road from Colombo to Kandy, where like bright birds-of-paradise, the cashew girls flutter around passing cars, calling out to buses and scooters from their small tables.... | Read.. |
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FIELD-DAY: (Clockwise from left) Children play cricket at Hyde Park; a group of amateurs wield the willow in Parliament Square; the NatWest trophy
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