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| Acts of evasion |
| The Karnataka election was fought on bread and butter issues |
| The British broadcaster and former MP, Sir Clement Freud, once narrated what he considered “the funniest joke” he had heard. A habitual drunkard, it seems, had promised his wife that he wouldn’t visit the pub again. Predictably, he broke his promise,... |
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| Plug the gap |
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Sir — “Neo-baseball, anyone?” (May 26) by Ashok Mitra is yet another example of this Marxist writer ... |
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| Then and now |
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Sir — Cricket, to use an old adage, is a religion in India. However, when a senior citizen like me ... |
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| ONE GOAL |
| There will always be people in various walks of life who want to put their little world into reverse gear. The present presid...|
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| STARTING OVER |
| King Gyanendra may be saved from the wolf at the door by his financial interests in tea, tourism and tobacco, but he will sti...|
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| To play with fire |
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The Gujjars are up in arms and in revolt again. They have been promised an election sop, one that the state government cannot... | Read.. |
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie,/ Love, the reeling midnight through,/ For tomorrow we shall die!/ (But, alas, we never do.)
— DOROTHY PARKER
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| Dead fathers |
| The protagonist, Jamal, of Something to Tell You is a Freudian psychoanalyst, a “reader of minds and signs”... |
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| No ordinary war |
| It has been five years since President George W. Bush ordered the American troops.... |
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