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| A certain ruthlessness |
| The power women of North and South |
| The day the Uttar Pradesh election results came in, I was having lunch with a friend in Mumbai. “Mayavati appears to be the Jayalalithaa of the North,” he said, before passing on to other matters. But his remark stayed with me; the more I thought abo... |
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| Pretender to the throne |
| Now that the results of the French presidential election have been officially confirmed, we know that the next inhabitant of ... |
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| Shrewd calculation |
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Sir — “India isn’t Delhi”(May 23) rightly points to the government’s limited vision in projecting I ... |
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| Natural disaster |
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Sir — The dwindling population of tigers (“Shed a tear for the tiger”, May 24) reveals an alarming ... |
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| Failing health |
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Sir — The unfortunate death of 80-year-old Phanindranath Mandal, owing to medical negligence at the ... |
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| UPON THAT MOUNTAIN |
| What mountaineers call the ‘death zone’ — above 8,000 metres on the Himalayas — engenders its own code of ethics. This code i...|
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| The epic battle continues |
| Some of the younger groups in Bengali theatre are fighting international and sectarian violence in unusual ways, keeping the flag of the movement’s political activism flying.... |
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| Conversations on the right note |
| Training in Hindustani classical vocals is not necessarily an advantage for a Rabindrasangeet singer, primarily because the meend-pradhan (dominated by gliding notes)... |
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| Clutter on the floor and walls |
| Although Aakriti art gallery’s exhibition (May 5 to 15) of landscapes and contemporary Bengal sculpture in its two adjacent halls was more or less representative of current tr... |
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Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
— W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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