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| Fear and loathing |
| If classical music has survived, perhaps classical cricket will too |
| Those of us who denounce the IPL sometimes confuse fear for loathing. I don’t dislike Twenty20 in itself: I watch passages of play in the IPL, gripped and fascinated. The sight of the eccentrically-muscled Shoaib Akhtar bounding in to bowl from the b... |
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| Stormy signals |
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| Dirty job |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The street lights on Khanpur Road near Naktala have been kept switched on for a few days now. ... |
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| LITTLE TOO LATE |
| With sixty-odd people dead and more than a hundred injured, the tragedy in Jaipur is the eighth in a sequence of blasts since...|
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| MEASURED STEPS |
| Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow, but Nawaz Sharif has little time for such wisdom. He prefers shadow-boxing...|
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| Suffer in silence |
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Within hours of the earthquake, whose tremors seem to have been felt all over the country, Premier Wen Jiabao was reportedly ... | Read.. |
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| Death on the tracks |
| Sometime in the middle of last month, a mail from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals landed in my inbox. It pointed out, interestingly, that while the mascot of t... |
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| Stopping by woods on a rainy evening |
| Bong Basti, a village in the Chilapata forest in Jalpaiguri, is composed of about thirty homes. At first sight, it looks like any other tribal village. Houses constructed on s... |
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‘A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,’ he said, ‘but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.’
— W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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