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| Darkness visible |
| The governor’s concern has highlighted the CPI(M)’s dilemma |
| When a bomb hit Buckingham Palace in 1940, Queen Elizabeth (the present queen’s mother) famously remarked, “I’m glad we have been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End (which German strikes had almost flattened) in the face.” The incident ... |
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Sir — As a software developer who uses Apache Tomcat everyday, I could not stop laughing when I rea ... |
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Sir — Three days are too little time to heal the pain caused by heartache (“Dumped? Don’t cry, take ... |
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| GOOD CITIZEN |
| When someone begins to look heroic or saintly simply because he has acted ethically, it is time to sit up and think. Tapas Sa...|
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| Many voices of the river |
| While the state continues to gear up for Manik Bandyopadhyay’s birth centenary festivities, Bengali theatre has already paid its tribute by staging his two best novels, Put... |
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| Ripples that create a vast turbulence |
| In 1890, a French mathematician, Jacques Hadamard, coined the phrase, “butterfly effect”, to describe a phenomenon associated with chaos theory. A small change in the initial ... |
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| All on a summer day |
| As summer comes on, days get longer, nights shorter. Days go from warm to hot and hotter, till they become scorching. Dust ha... |
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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