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| Sites of past conflict |
| Revisiting memorials of 1857-58 |
| The need to memorialize the events of 1857-8 gave rise to almost a mini-industry as descriptions and visuals of those traumatic days were quickly “incorporated into gazetteers, summarized in guide books and celebrated in adventure stories for boys” (... |
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| End in sight? |
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Sir — Not just tigers but rhinos too are being driven towards extinction by the poacher’s gun (“Sci ... |
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| Favourite tunes |
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Sir — “Play it again and again Sam” (Feb 12), by Rohini Chaki, made for delightful reading. The art ... |
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Sir — Bengalis love to protest. In fact, they are always on the look out for a reason to start an a ... |
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| STATE OF THE ART |
| Would today’s state-of-the-art cinematography have made Rashomon or Pather Panchali a better film? This is one ...|
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If the cells and fibre in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.
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