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| Faintly surreal |
| Reading Orwell, and the old lady comes to tea at No. 10 |
| I had thought, when writing my August ‘Westminster Gleanings’, with little summer excitement to glean from Westminster, that September would bring a refocusing on politics and on Gordon Brown, the prime minister, after the long, damp and quietish sum... |
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| Passion play |
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| ROYAL GAME |
| Chess does not lend itself to mass hysteria. This is true for anywhere in the world, not just in India. It is in the nature o...|
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| RUDE STRIKE |
| If judges sit in court on a Sunday, it is a signal for people to take serious notice. A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court ...|
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| Baggage Of the Past |
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Growth, communication and the dissemination of information have given a different perspective to India’s young, and allowed t... | Read.. |
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| Sing for the nation, whatever that is |
| Like anyone who lives in a musical land, I enjoy good music, and look forward to hearing new voices. This is possibly the commonest reason that pushed up the TRP on the talent... |
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| Rousing stuff |
| The hills are alive — and fighting. Surprisingly, behind the unrest, there is the sound of music — that produced by Prashant Tamang in the show called Indian Idol. Tama... |
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| Catch ’em young |
| Indians must have their soap operas.
The K-serials and their many clones have outgrown their novelty, so they have
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| Message is the medium |
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on TV at the moment? The ticker on reality shows, saying “To vote, SMS ‘Y’ and
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We don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody’s there.
— MARTIN AMIS
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