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| Traversing India |
| Bullock-carts, elephants, palanquins and people on the move |
| As the latter half of the nineteenth century became a world on the move, photography was there to record various modes of transportation. Between 1894-96, the US-based Transportation Commission headed by railroad publicist Joseph Gladding Pangborn do... |
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| Troubled by security |
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Sir — The city police throws a blanket of security around any dignitary visiting Calcutta. Because ... |
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Sir — Those who had scripted Shoaib Akhtar’s obituary will now have to eat their words (“Shoaib, As ... |
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Sir — I have long been suffering at the hands of the taxi services provided at various points in Ca ... |
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| FAST POLITICS |
| Fasting in most religious traditions is a ritual act of atonement or purification. Christians fast during Lent and Muslims du...|
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only one stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him coldbloodedly handed over to the police.
— BERTOLT BRECHT
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