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| One face, another colour |
| Can history’s wheel really turn back for India and China? |
| It’s part of the conspiracy of colour never to mention society’s deepest faultline. Thus, Kishore Mahbubani, whose perceptive essay, “The West and the Rest”, sparked off the Asian values debate before Samuel Huntington hit the headlines, goes to extr... |
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| How to be a Brit |
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Sir — Swapan Dasgupta’s critique of Great Britain’s decline into a nanny state is timely and accura ... |
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| Books come last |
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Sir — Victor Banerjee has brilliantly outlined, in nine paragraphs spreading over four columns, the ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Long ago when I was a student of a reputed boys school in Calcutta, I read Mark Twain’s story ... |
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| WASTE LAND |
| How is it that Marxism, despite its political appeal, almost always fails as a guide to governance? This has been the case in...|
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| Through the night, softly |
| The 56th Dover Lane Music Conference (Nazrul Mancha, January 22-25), presented by Desh, ended with a sarod recital by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. He had started with alap<... |
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| Ringside view |
| Photographer David Trattles had heard about the “girls that box” on a Canadian radio show. Intrigued, he cycled down with his camera to Calcutta from Delhi, which he was then ... |
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| Some transposed home truths |
| The double award of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony in 2001 for Proof catapulted its 31-year-old author, David Auburn, to Broadway fame, which also sealed its cinematizatio... |
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| The day of the people |
| Once again, as in years past, I watched the Republic Day parade down Rajpath and the Beating of Retreat on Vijay Chowk on TV.... |
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I should like to see the custom introduced of readers who are pleased with a book sending the author some small cash token: anything between half-a-crown and a hundred pounds...Not more than a hundred pounds — that would be bad for my character — not less than half-a-crown — that would do no good to yours.
— CYRIL CONOLLY
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