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| Thuggery is no sport |
| Should the BCCI be complicit with the Mugabe regime? |
| In the late Seventies, when governments in southern Africa came in white racist flavours, Robert Mugabe was a hero. Leftish undergraduates in my university preferred him to Joshua Nkomo, his rival in the Rhodesian resistance movement, because Mugabe ... |
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| Auto-cracy |
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Sir — Jayanta Basu’s report on autorickshaws was an excellent piece of investigative journalism (“A ... |
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| TIMELY PLAN |
| It is much more than remembering to switch off the lights and fans, or to turn off the water-tap properly. But being actively...|
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| DIFFICULT SHOW |
| Everybody loves a good fiction, especially when it comes packaged as the real thing. The ubiquitous reality shows featuring c...|
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So Nepal is no longer a kingdom. King Gyanendra is out, the Narayanhiti palace has been converted into a museum , people have... | Read.. |
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| Pesi Ginwala (1918-2008) |
| There was no “moaning of the Bar” (apologies to Tennyson) when Pesi Ginwala “put out to sea” earlier this week. But that was because of his written instructions “not to declar... |
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| Storm brewing in the mountains |
| The author prepared the first Development Plan of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in 1989. The position he holds has no bearing on the views expressed in this article ... |
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| Lights, camera, and no action? |
| The multiplexes are alive with the sights and sounds of the Darjeeling hills, with Anjan Dutta’s Chalo...Let’s Go and Arindam Nandy’s Via Darjeeling doing brisk ... |
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it. — THOMAS MANN
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