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| Recalling a touch artist |
| Sporting heroes in a little boy’s life |
| The two greatest comebacks in the history of Indian sport were both conducted in the great city of Calcutta. The better-known, since more recent, was the magnificent 281 scored by V.V.S. Laxman at the Eden Gardens in March 2001. After Australia had f... |
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| Extra cover |
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Sir — Did the Indian team management have to be so magnanimous towards the Aussies? If the case aga ... |
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| Temple tantrums |
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| NO SPECIAL CASE |
| In political theory there exists an absurdity called constitutional monarchy. According to this concept, defended by no less ...|
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| Lessons from a master pianist |
| Joseph Banowetz, a skilled pianist, gave Calcutta’s music lovers a treat to remember at the Calcutta School of Music on January 6. Banowetz has been heard as a recitalist and ... |
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| The colour purple |
| This is art that holds up a mirror to dreams. Yet it defies a strictly surrealist label, in that the ‘real’ is inescapably a part of the language of its discourse. Birds, beas... |
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| Enigma in the neighbourhood |
| There is no reason why Sri Lanka and India should not be the best of neighbours. A majority of Sri Lankans trace their ancest... |
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Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
— Winston Churchill
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