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| Patriot, not chauvinist |
| The Right cannot be allowed to hijack the most meaningful words |
| The novelist, U.R. Anantha Murthy, has long objected to the characterization of the sangh parivar as the ‘saffron brigade’. Saffron is a beautiful colour, the colour of renunciation, worn by monks and others of great and good character. Why sh... |
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| Voting right |
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Sir — Any right includes the right not to use the right. My right to marry includes my right to rem ... |
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| TRIUMPH OF THE LOCAL |
| In a state that had become a euphemism for political fragmentation along sectarian lines, the Bahujan Samaj Party’s unambiguo...|
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| The coolest one |
| If we Indians were asked who we prefer to see as head of the government of Pakistan — Pervez Musharraf or Benazir Bhutto — I ... |
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Physically, there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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| Experiments in abstraction |
| Sankho Chaudhuri, unlike Sarbari Roy Choudhury, may not have created likenesses of great Hindustani classical vocalists such as Siddheswari Devi and Bade Ghulam Ali singing fu... |
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| Mark of a good training |
| Whatever reservations one might have about the Dakshinee-style of singing, a show put together by this decades-old Rabindrasangeet institution is always something to look forw... |
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