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| The philosopher’s funeral |
| The news of Ramchandra Gandhi’s sudden death is stunning |
| Just now, an email message from a friend brought the stunning news that Ramchandra Gandhi was found dead in his room at the India International Centre earlier today, June 13, 2007. “Stunning” is most often used these days as an adjective of physical ... |
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| Justice after dark |
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Sir — Evening courts are certainly welcome (“Justice by sunset”, June 6). However, such institution ... |
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| Bury the truth |
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Sir — Former Pakistan skipper, Imran Khan, is absolutely right in asking the country’s cricket boar ... |
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| LISTENING AND LOOKING |
| It is the sort of thing Pop Artists say when they turn seventy. There is a kind of willed conservatism in David Hockney — Bri...|
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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour pricks me off when I come on? — how then?...What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. It is insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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