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| Gandhi in Orissa |
| Remembering the most remarkable Indian of modern times |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was by birth a Gujarati bania, but the admiration for his life and work transcended the boundaries of caste, language, religion and gender. He was a man who was trusted by women, a Hindu who reached out to befriend M... |
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| Neighbour’s agony |
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Sir — Since the makers of South City love to advertise their creation only in superlatives, they mi ... |
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| Honour at stake |
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Sir — Some weeks back the Bharat Ratna had sparked political controversy after L.K. Advani proposed ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — It is strange that The Telegraph thinks that Yuvraj Singh is a “dashing right-hander”, ... |
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| FOR BETTER, PROBABLY |
| It is mandatory, but who is to check? The West Bengal government has at last caught up with the repeatedly pronounced directi...|
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| Swayed to music |
| In Fellini’s E la nave va (And The Ship Sails On, 1983), Pina Bausch, then in her early forties, is the blind Principessa Lherimia. Fellini’s great burlesque of ... |
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| Darkness and light |
| The works of Jeram Patel and Amitav Das, which were recently exhibited at Anant Art Gallery, stand at two opposite poles. While Patel’s works are monochromatic and stark, Das ... |
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| In fond memory of a master |
| The Uday Shankar Nrityotsav, which was held at Rabindra Sadan in December, provided a perfect opportunity for dancers to present various forms of their art. The week-lo... |
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| Power play |
| The Malayalam Amateur Nataka Samithy, Calcutta, staged N.N. Pillai’s The President ... |
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| An epicure’s delight |
| I am a small but fussy eater, a gourmet, not a gourmand. I eat very little during the day but like my dinner to be a one-cour... |
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One of the depressing things about depression is knowing that there are lots of people in the world with far more reason to feel depressed than you have, and finding that, so far from making you snap out of your depression, it only makes you despise yourself more and thus feel more depressed. — DAVID LODGE
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