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| Borderland travails |
| The Northeast and the nation |
| Earlier this year, I spent ten days travelling through three states of northeastern India. My journey began in Manipur, where, on my first night, I had dinner with a bunch of academics and journalists. The humour on display was black: it was aimed ch... |
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| Discordant notes |
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Sir — Thank you for Somak Ghoshal’s brilliant article, “Eine kleine light music” (June 17), which d ... |
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| No mail is good news |
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Sir — The problem of email overload plaguing corporate organizations globally, including the creato ... |
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| CALL ’EM BACK |
| Is there an easy way to make an elected representative accountable? The people of Raipur, Gunderdehi and Nawagarh in Chhatti...|
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| Silence and slow time |
| Samita Nag’s exhibition of graphic works — etchings, lithographs, drypoints — at Chitrakoot Art Gallery (June 8-14) included prints of exceptional precision and technical exce... |
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| Weak moves with spirited songs |
| Rabindrasangeet demands a balance between grammatical discipline and emotional expression. This was the hallmark of Pramita Mullick’s singing at the GD Birla Sabhagar on June ... |
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| Primal influence |
| Avant-garde performance art is rarely encountered in Calcutta, so Embrace: Flash Points... |
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| Although most countries have abolished the practice of triple talaq, it still continues among Muslims in India, writes Samim Ahmed. |
| The Bombay High Court has recently set aside the divorce case of a Muslim man named Ismail Shaikh. The verdict pronounced the... |
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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness...He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
— VIRGINIA WOOLF
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