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| Nengti?s wedding |
| Girls and boys in a mango grove |
| ?What does an ethnographer do??
? he writes. ? Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures. ?Syar,
Nengtir-na biya!? a little girl informed us, leaning, with coy but laughing
eyes, on the rickety gate of green bamboo that led to her mud-and-thatch learning
centre in the village ... | Read.. |
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| Slip sliding away |
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Sir ? Shivajirao Deshmukh, the Maharashtra legislative council chairman, probably thinks that the s ... |
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| The army of independent India is a colonial army, and it does not quite know what to do with this paradox. One sign of this c...|
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| OUT IN THE COLD |
| Can these elections see a revival of the Congress?s fortunes in West Bengal? The answer to this question could determine the ...|
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| Shutting out the past |
| Long, long before adjectives such as ?multicultural? had come into vogue, and the juggernaut of globalization had begun to reduce diverse cultural manifestations into a morass... |
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| The supernatural virtue of justice
consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger
in an unequal relationship. ? SIMONE WEIL |
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