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| Lighting the fire |
| The intellectual legacy of Bengal now weighs heavy on it |
| In the fortnight before Diwali, Calcutta hosted some unlikely visitors from the heartland of global capitalism. They came to the city for two reasons: first, to get a feel of a state that has monotonously elected governments headed by one of the most... |
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| Power without glory |
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| IN SILENCE |
| It is a weapon newly discovered. The people of Calcutta, rejecting all special labels whether political or professional, had ...|
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| DIFFICULT GAMES |
| The United Nations was not created in order to resolve ethnic or other armed conflicts. Its successes in such missions, wheth...|
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| Wolf in sheep’s clothing |
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To hear the chief minister of a state in the Union of India explain away open gang warfare by saying that the illegal armed a... | Read.. |
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All perfect republics are perfect nonsense. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — JOHN FOWLES
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| On the margin |
| In the early Twenties, Franz Kafka, with his boundless self-deprecation, di... |
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