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| Heyer’s heroines |
| True love in a plausibly real world |
| Georgette Heyer wrote a sequence of ‘Regency’ romances in the middle years of the 20th century. Strictly speaking many of her romances aren’t set in Regency England at all, a period that lasted ten years between 1811 and 1820, when mad George III was... |
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| Sweetest victory |
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Sir — The Indian cricket team won an important Test match in Perth (“Perth-breaking”, Jan 20). The ... |
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| UNREAL FRONT |
| Political competition is all about offering alternatives — or pretending to do so. But there is something unreal about the “...|
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| BRAVEHEART |
| Bilkis Bano has been an unforgettable face of the Gujarat riots of 2002 ever since the world came to know of the horrific cri...|
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| Power To The Worker |
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China’s new labour law came into effect just three weeks ago, on January 1, providing the kind of safeguards organized labour... | Read.. |
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| Who owns the sublime? |
| My first-ever trip to the Ajanta caves could not have been more ill-timed. When I finally reached there from Aurangabad, my heart leapt at the sight of the caves — sublime, en... |
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| Conservation costs less than ugliness |
| It is undeniable that the template for a modern India was established by the colonial regime. The British built up the infrastructure for modernization by ushering in industri... |
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Medieval marriages were entirely a matter of property, and, as everyone knows, marriage without love means love without marriage.
— KENNETH CLARKE
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