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| Overseas and unhappy |
| India needs to pay attention to the ethnic crisis in Malaysia |
| Malaysia’s simmering ethnic crisis is something for the ministry of overseas Indian affairs to ponder on. Presumably, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman was bestowed on S. Samy Vellu, president since 1979 of the Malaysian Indian Congress and public works ... |
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| Life after marriage |
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Sir — Japanese women who have chosen to remain single need to reconsider their decision (“Learn to ... |
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| Failed god |
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Sir — In “Reflections on a rally” (Nov 25), Rudrangshu Mukherjee rightly criticizes the leftist int ... |
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| ENEMY OF PROMISE |
| A crisis, according to ancient Chinese wisdom, is also a window of opportunity. It offers a chance to draw lessons, to distin...|
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| Ordinary touches |
| For the past eight years or so, Indian artists have been going places. Art galleries that have proliferated all over the city organize trips abroad in five or seven-star comfo... |
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| When the East met West |
| If there is one Indian composer whose songs respond wonderfully to Western instruments, it ought to be Rabindranath Tagore. This is probably stating the obvious, since the Wes... |
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| A cat that got the cream |
| I happened to have met Norman Mailer, who died on November 10 at the age of 84. I don’t recall exactly when the meeting had t... |
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He would have liked to sit down and talk with someone about the flat things, as blameless as paper, about which it is necessary to talk. It is not possible with parents, any more than with corkscrews. His mother would bore right in, hoping to draw something out. — PATRICK WHITE
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