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| The God machine |
| The digital revolution has made our lives less tactile |
| Till roughly fifteen years ago, the most complex electronic gadget Indian consumers had to handle was the video cassette recorder. Programming the VCR to start recording a favourite programme when you weren’t at home was a complex business, made hard... |
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| General chaos |
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Sir — President Pervez Musharraf has behaved most audaciously by declaring a state of emergency in ... |
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| END VIOLENCE |
| The people of Bengal did not need the state’s home secretary to tell them that Nandigram had turned into a “war zone”. That t...|
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| MISSING LINK |
| That children of uneducated parents are likely to remain illiterate is a self-evident truth. It is one of those lessons that ...|
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| Nation in Distress |
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Although Bollywood is much maligned for churning out mindless blockbusters, at times, it also obliquely depicts the ground re... | Read.. |
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| Baton talk |
| Awkward; helpless; uncomfortable. I was stuck. I could not possibly think of a fourth word to describe how it felt while visiting a police station in Calcutta. “You could add ... |
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| Reckoning with the force |
| I was seventeen when I had to do my share of visiting police stations. Marital discord and the consequent domestic violence under our roof had been getting worse by the day wh... |
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought, particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. — WOODY ALLEN
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