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| A creeping insularity |
| Santiniketan still has a living link with its founders |
| A week before I was to visit Santiniketan for the first time, I was working in the archives in Delhi, where I came across a letter written to Mahatma Gandhi by Tagore’s English associate, W.W. Pearson. “Your big family has arrived here... all very we... |
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| Mind the sign |
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Sir — Private cars and motorcycles plying the streets flaunting boards with words like ‘police’ or ... |
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| Scary high |
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Sir — The fact that inflation has reached 7 per cent this year — highest in three years — is a tell ... |
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| SEATS OF NEW LEARNING |
| The righting of historical wrongs can be a long process, especially when the politicians of a country use it as a pretext to ...|
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| Dark within |
| Dysfunctional or disintegrating families have preoccupied American playwrights much more than European ones. Now that Bengali theatre has ventured out of its socialistic dogma... |
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| Simple and elegant steps |
| Among the dance styles referred to as Classical, Kuchipudi is perhaps one of the less represented forms within the city. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, in collabor... |
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| Dullness visible |
| It would be an understatement to describe the latest exhibition at Gallery Kolkata as dismal (Image of one’s own self, until April 19). As it is, a handful of names kee... |
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| Rhythm of the day |
| Padatik Dance Centre presented Kathak Marathon, a day-long Kathak recital at Gyan Manch on March 30.... |
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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.
— JULIAN BARNES
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