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| Embracing other selves |
| Jane, Mr Rochester and a girl in Bombay |
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Sir ? It is sad that the actor, Feroz Khan, has been banned from entering Pakistan (?Pervez bans Fe ... |
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| FRONT FOOT FORWARD |
| A week is a long time in politics, and a year a short time in the building of a cricket team. But twelve months is a long eno...|
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| The spectacle creates an eternal
present of immediate expectation; memory ceases to be necessary or desirable.
With the loss of memory the continuities of meaning and judgement are lost to
us. The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. ? JOHN BERGER |
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clean was my valley |
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