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| Brave but futile |
| Everywhere the feeling is that Gordon Brown has lost it |
| On May Day this year, the focus here will be on the democratic exercise, as UK voters elect their local councils and Londoners have their chance to elect or re-elect their mayor. The outcome of these elections, especially of the high-profile London c... |
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| Three cheers! |
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Sir — The photographs of a Washington Redskin cheerleader at a match of the Indian Premier League ... |
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| Erratum |
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In the review, “Those who bring the world to the breakfast table” (April 18), S. Nihal Singh says t ... |
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| OUT OF TIME |
| While there can be a law that condemns obscenity in public, it cannot define, for all times, what the obscene consists of. Th...|
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| NEW BASIS |
| History has a habit of changing things. Nepal has just undergone a dramatic transformation in its history, and it is not surp...|
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| As the mercury rises |
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The rising mercury in the capital has affected many political leaders in Delhi who seem to be totally out of sorts with every... | Read.. |
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| A city above pretence |
| It was not until my late-teens that I first learnt about the existence of Chitpur Road. Born and brought up in the South, anything north of Esplanade was North Calcutta for me... |
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| Time passes on Brindaban Basak St |
| Walking down Chitpur Road the other day, I was suddenly reminded of a couple of lines from one of Yeats’s poems. “Easter 1916”, I think it was — “All changed, changed utterly:... |
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And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:/ Their only monument the asphalt road/ And a thousand lost golf balls.’
— T.S. ELIOT
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