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| A passing urge |
| Martin Amis’s rant against Muslims shows the loss of liberal nerve |
| Martin Amis’s remarks about Muslims, made in the course of an interview with The Times more than a year ago, have turned up in the headlines again. I wrote about them in this column in February this year to illustrate the way in which ‘musc... | Read.. |
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| Cold comfort |
| Sir — The chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, finally had to pay a visit to Riz ... | Read.. |
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| From green to grey |
| Sir — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray’s concern for the Charlie Chaplin Park in Cornfield Road should be an ex ... | Read.. |
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| CLEAN IT UP |
| The chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, could not have given the people of the state a better gift at the...|
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| HUNGER STALKS |
| There could, after all, be some substance in the prediction that a substantial part of India would turn into sub-Saharan Afri...|
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| Still Not Open Enough |
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The ongoing 17th Communist Party Congress in Beijing is all over the news space. For the first time, discussions on President... | Read.. |
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| Slow change coming |
| I was peering into the makeshift workshop, fascinated by a cluster of veins crawling up like worms along the arms of the asur. Then, unavoidably, my eyes strayed on to ... |
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| Desperate search for happiness |
| On the street where I live, there is no puja — no Saraswati, no Kali, no Viswakarma, and certainly no Durga. Even the muezzin’s call floats from several blocks away, so... |
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My problem is that I am not frightfully interested in anything, except myself. And of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
— TOM STOPPARD
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