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| Theatre of war |
| Dramatic reconstruction of events by the camera |
| Not unexpectedly, 1857 marked a watershed in early British photography on India. The most important photographic record of the traumatic events of that year and the following was provided by a Corfiot Italian, Felice Beato — even though he arrived in... |
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| Hurry up, please |
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Sir — It is good that the president, Pratibha Patil, has realized the desperation of people denied ... |
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| Religion no bar |
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Sir — If Muslim women start organizing and attending religious tutorials, this step would go a long ... |
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| A note |
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The photograph of a Calcutta tram that appeared with Ian Jack’s column (“Victorian and modern”) on ... |
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| SOPS AND VOTES |
| This year’s Union budget has been both hailed and criticized for being populist. The last epithet is used to mark a tendency ...|
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| TIMELY VISIT |
| Everything that George W. Bush does, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does better. Iran may deny this base instinct having anything to do ...|
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| beyond the poll principle |
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With the budget out of the way for another year, and the unwarranted excitement beginning to ebb, our television anchors will... | Read.. |
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| Steel frame of standards |
| Given the kind of factionalism that India is witnessing today, and the general air of intolerance that sweeps our land, there are very few things we can truly be proud of. One... |
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| Making and unmaking India |
| Bombay was my home for nine years. Although I was too old to learn how to speak Marathi or Gujarati, I did not feel like an outsider and managed to get by with Mumbai-Hindi — ... |
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Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
— SUSAN ERTZ
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