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| Polite society |
| Urban etiquette demands wealth plus education plus discipline |
| Like Calcutta’s reorganized street crossings, Singapore’s lavatory posters are part of the polite society’s infrastructure. But whereas the poster promises improvement, our crossings proclaim futility. The danger of regression, something that Singapo... |
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| Connected to death |
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Sir — Cell phones are the bane of today’s motorists. There have been many reports of mishaps takin ... |
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| Welcome back |
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Sir — The report, “Card for hawkers” (November 28), shows that the Left Front government is serious ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The two young cricketers, Mohammed Shaivaaz Tumbi and Manoj Kumar, deserve congratulations fo ... |
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| IDES OF DECEMBER |
| One woman’s failure is another man’s success. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has a chance now to do a dance on the political grav...|
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| Strange ways of faith |
| You must have often wondered why religions, as they are practised today, are so completely different from what their founders... |
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I wonder what it’s like to be a tortoise. Not a barrel of laughs, I shouldn’t imagine. You can’t be frivolous or facetious if you’re a tortoise, can you? And think of the danger of being turned into a pair of hair-brushes...But you do have a home to go to. — KEITH WATERHOUSE
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| SHOOTING STAR |
| STAR India CEO Sameer Nair, the creative engine who propelled a whole lot of saas-bahu soaps that were lapped up by the natio... |
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