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| Sons and lovers |
| Self-portrait with mother and father |
| In 1935, when he was about fourteen, Satyajit Ray created perhaps his first masterful image. This was a black-and-white photograph of himself and his mother. His father — dead for more than a decade by then — is present in the composition as an image... |
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| Stinking nation |
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Sir — The report, “Moral MP caught with fake wife” (April 19), hardly comes as a surprise. It is un ... |
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| TRY AGAIN LATER |
| The United Progressive Alliance government does not understand why, despite all its efforts to lead the horse close to the wa...|
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| BET ON RAINFALL |
| The cliché about Indian agriculture being a gamble on the monsoon should perhaps be rephrased. Indian agriculture has become ...|
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| On A Hostile Terrain |
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The attempted rape of two women at Rajauri by jawans masked as militants is sure to strengthen the claim that this is ... | Read.. |
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| Oh, for a
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| Shahanara loved embroidering images of sunflowers and peacocks. Even after 10 years in a mental hospital and another six in a half-way home, she never lost hope of being reuni... |
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| Minor matter |
| A man challenged a high court order directing him to pay maintenance for his children. He contended that at the time of the divorce, he and his ex-wife had signed an agreemen... |
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What is a photograph? It’s something defined, with an edge ... A long time after the event it is still there, and when you look at it you shut out everything else. It becomes an icon, a totem, a curio.
— GRAHAM SWIFT
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