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| Race of a different sort |
| John Hope Franklin’s lived history and the Democratic primaries |
| I have been reading the autobiography of John Hope Franklin, an American historian who rose from obscurity to reach the very pinnacle of his profession. Franklin was born in 1915, to black parents who lived in the southern state of Oklahoma. Fifty ye... |
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| A clean strike |
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Sir — This year, the World Environment Day made some sense. Air and sound pollution was considerabl ... |
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| Royal success |
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Sir — The Rajasthan Royals deserve praise for winning the inaugural Indian Premier League (“Royal ... |
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| PEOPLE VS POLITICIANS |
| People’s power, the basis of communist rule, ideology and rhetoric, can sometimes turn against those who profess to live by i...|
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| To discover the thread that binds |
| Ganges Art Gallery, where eight Calcutta-based artists are holding an exhibition of installations, photographs, sculpture and video titled To All Whom It May Concern (M... |
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| Far from thrilling |
| When cardboard lovers become papier mâché villains, “the simple art of murder” that Raymond Chandler speaks of becomes too contrived. Theatrician’s latest production, A... |
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| Raising the bar |
| Given the plunging standards of the annual musical tribute to Tagore in the Rabindra Sadan complex... |
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| Different styles |
| It was a welcome gesture on the part of West Bengal Dance Group Federation to organize a ... |
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People who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycles as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them, and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. — FLANN O’ BRIEN
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