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| Inconsistently liberal |
| In a country as diverse as India, one size does not always fit all |
| The Vadodara art school episode where a student was arrested for exhibiting within his department a painting that local VHP activists, led by Neeraj Jain, deemed offensive to Hindu and Christian sensibilities, and where the dean of his faculty was su... |
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| The right choice |
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Sir — Ashok Mitra’s “Searching high, not low” (May 28) should give the political class, which is cu ... |
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| CASTE FIRES |
| The greedy lay traps that threaten to snare them in the end. Politicians, greedy for votes and for victory, single-mindedly c...|
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| FAILED, OLD PLOY |
| It is not difficult to see what the United Liberation Front of Asom wants to achieve with its latest spurt of violence. It wo...|
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| Beauty That Vanishes |
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Beijing’s skyline is dotted with cranes and many of its streets are littered with rubble as demolitions and new constructions... | Read.. |
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| The family and other animals |
| It was a full house on May 12, spruced up for the occasion of M. Karunanidhi’s “golden jubilee as a legislator”. The polished teak wood panels in the historic Tamil Nadu assem... |
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| Competition is a foul word |
| What is it with Tamil political leaders and literary — or, to extend it a little bit, cultural — ambitions? Alright, the Tamils love their poets and filmstars, but why is it t... |
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To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don’t feel worse. There’s the ineffectual liberal’s problem in a nutshell.
— MICHAEL FRAYN
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