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| Loyalty or competence? |
| Sycophancy has been the very signature of the Congress |
| After the results of the last general elections were announced, the Congress members of both Houses met in one of the columned halls of Parliament. The proceedings were telecast live; and I was one of many Indians who watched them. There was, as we r... |
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| Leaning too much |
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Sir — In “Nandi frets, Singur eats fruits” (May 14), Kinsuk Basu writes, “unlike Nandigram, where n ... |
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| Tribe in need |
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Sir — More than 900 lives have been lost and about 300 villages destroyed under the National Social ... |
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| UGLY UNDERNEATH |
| Racism is ugly — always and everywhere. But in a country so giddy with the bliss of new-found freedoms, it takes on a particu...|
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| A different summer |
| What may draw you to CIMA Gallery’s Summer Show (until July 5) — featuring 34 works by 30 artists — are the lesser-known names, mostly from outside Bengal.... |
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| Dance of death |
| The tastefully designed invitation and the programme notes reproducing Nandalal Bose’s beautiful mural of a dancer led one to expect something better than the run-of-the-mill... |
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| Schooled to perfection |
| Last Saturday, students of Fauzia Marikar, one of Calcutta’s foremost piano teachers, were presented in their annual concert at the Sandré Hall of the Calcutta School of Music... |
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| Unoriginal mix |
| A collection of works by contemporary artists from Bengal was presented by Weaver’s Studio Centre for the Arts and Aryan Art Gallery, New Delhi (Visual Rhapsody, ended May... |
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| Wealth of the neighbours |
| Farrukh Saleem, a freelance Pakistani journalist based in Islamabad wrote an article comparing the rich in India with those i... |
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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — RICHARD FEYNMAN
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