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| Bogeys in their heads |
| The symbolic potential of the veil in Britain |
| Last week, I suggested in these columns that Jack Straw’s discomfort in the presence of burqa’d women was a provincial’s reaction to difference. The burqa, I argued, was no more “a visible statement of separation” than a short skirt was a braz... |
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| Due credit |
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Sir — Not only Bangladeshis but thousands of Bengalis in India are elated that the Nobel Peace Priz ... |
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| STAY VIGILANT |
| Should the Reserve Bank of India raise its policy rates at its next credit policy meeting at the end of this month? Those who...|
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| POINTS TO PONDER |
| There is something hideously wrong with a society that has to be constantly reminded about children’s welfare, and that too t...|
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| Fading out slowly |
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The People’s Daily had, two days back, a picture of President Hu Jintao visiting an exhibition in commemoration of the... | Read.. |
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| The unaccommodated goddess |
| On that part of the Keoratola mahashmashan known as the ‘Mahisur Udyan’, a huge dais — generally reserved for cremating “VIPs”, someone informed me — is being prepared ... |
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The world does seem to become one, however much its component elements may resist. Indeed, the stronger the resistance, the more certain is the outcome. We resist only what is inevitable. — HENRY MILLER
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