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| Woman on the move |
| Why Nistarini Debi chose to live on her own |
| Indians have been peripatetic for centuries, travelling both within the country and abroad, and with British rule, employment-related middle-class migration picked up. Some planned their ventures meticulously, often following family members who had m... |
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| Dangerous trend |
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Sir — Lawlessness in Bihar continues unabated despite the grand promises made by the chief minister ... |
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| Content control |
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Sir — A costumed half-beast-half-human warrior with Bambi eyes splatters an enormous amount of bloo ... |
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| ALWAYS SICK |
| It is perhaps too much to expect the director of a top national medical institute and a minister in charge of the nation’s he...|
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| FORCED TO THINK |
| In India, what do most board examinations examine? Memory, stamina and canniness in predicting questions, rather than the stu...|
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| It’s A Chinese Love Story |
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He came to China when he was posted in his country’s embassy in Beijing. That was way back in the Nineties, when the American... | Read.. |
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| More for the big shopper |
| As you climb Sukanta Setu towards Santoshpur, a vertical oddity suddenly pierces the view to the right from underneath as it raises itself over the rooftops in the distance. I... |
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| Oranges and lemons, sold for a penny |
| Ishad Ahmed is a fruit-seller seated on a low perch outside the rear entrance to the Park Circus market. On a drizzling late afternoon, he looks gloomier than the ten-odd dust... |
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The countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
— MARCEL PROUST
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Look out for the review in our Books section
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