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| Everyone loves a good spy |
| Spying is objectionable only when it benefits the adversary |
| A Marxist mayor of Calcutta once suggested to the American consul-general that the city should be twinned with San Francisco. When the surprised American replied that Calcutta already had a twin in Odessa in what was still the Soviet Union, the mayor... |
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| In black and white |
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Sir ? A black Taj Mahal may well be the fulfilment of Shah Jahan?s dreams (?Taj in black, all of 12 ... |
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| Fare play |
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Sir ? The West Bengal government has decided upon the hike in taxi fares without first working out ... |
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| THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER |
| There is a kind of word-music in the two names sounded together that would appeal to children. ?Messrs George Bush and Tony B...|
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| Reading the road signs |
| After many years of travelling by train and taxi to my summer abode in the Shivaliks, I decided to do the entire journey by r... |
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good-tilled earth; a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt...Even in ancient days they were,as a rule, shy of ?Big folk?, as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find. ? J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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