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| Mission possible |
| The new Nepal needs to recognize that it cannot do without India |
| The spotlight that has shifted from Shri Panch Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva should rightly fall on Sitaram Yechury, to whom the United Progressive Alliance government virtually outsourced India’s relations with Nepal. Since he has been the principa... |
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| Those Eighties shows |
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| Whither kindness? |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Why is proper communication still eluding New Town, Rajarhat? First the people were lured by ... |
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| QUESTIONS OF DIFFERENCE |
| From the new research that has found that the under-performance of girls in mathematics is related to gender inequality in so...|
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| Awakening into simplicity |
| In a short, unpublished piece on the elements of “wonder” and “awe” in art, Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998) had expressed her views on the abstract quality of art that is the resu... |
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| More than just entertainment |
| A full-fledged musical is the most redoubtable of theatrical genres. Not only because of the number of personnel it involves, multiplied by the many human eccentricities, but ... |
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| Eat flesh and be merry |
| The practice of killing an animal or a bird just because its flesh tastes better than vegetables is morally inexcusable. You ... |
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, ‘You’re the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world, why should you be frightened? — BEATRICE WEBB
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