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| Breaking with the past |
| What do modern Indians have in common with their ancestors? |
| Bhubaneswar has, at first glance, the provincialism you associate with many capital cities. There are the obscure but important centres of scientific research by the main road, where, presumably, some sort of work on agricultural graft is being done;... |
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| Trite family sagas |
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Sir — M.R. Venkatesh’s “The family and other animals” (May 31) was interesting, but had hardly any ... |
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Sir — The prime minister has rightly requested chief ministers to control power transmission and po ... |
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| RIPE FOR MISCHIEF |
| How old is Cruella de Vil? She persists in the imagination as a scheming woman in the prime of her powers — an image deliciou...|
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| We are essentially
fragile ... One may go just as easily with the measles
or diphtheria, meningitis, colic, influenza or mere hunger.
There are so many ways of us dying it’s astonishing any
of us choose old age. — BERYL BAINBRIDGE
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