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| Accursed power |
| How kings come and go when it’s convenient for others |
| Kings are not in fashion. Certainly not while alive and reigning. When dead, it’s another matter as the obsequies of Afghanistan’s Mohammed Zahir Shah demonstrated. The rapture with which he was greeted after 29 years of exile and the mourning at his... |
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| Caught napping |
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Sir — Origin of the Kolkata Police, a book written by P. Thankappan Nair, was recently launc ... |
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| FORCING CHANGE |
| How much funding does the theory of global warming attract? For global warming is a theory, not a fact, say the scientists wh...|
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| Transformed by a quirk of the brow |
| It is strange how some artists are remembered for a single quality of their work to the exclusion of all else. Gobardhan Ash is one such. While he is remembered along with Som... |
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| Experiments with mood and style |
| Constant restlessness and the urge for innovation often show up a different dimension of the traditional structure. Learning a classical dance style with a liberal perspecti... |
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| Pastoral pleasures |
| It is great shikaar country. Wild boar and deer come down from the Shivaliks to the valley to feed on ripening crops. ... |
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You can have a men’s novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady/ or the horse, but you can’t have a women’s novel with no men in it./ Sometimes men put women in men’s novels/ but they leave out some of the parts;/ the heads, for instance. — MARGARET ATWOOD
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