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| Caught in a cleft stick |
| Gilded obituaries and a church threatened with schism |
| The passing of great men, makers of our recent history, leaves a hollow that we fail to see filled by younger generations of leaders in whichever field. We are wrong of course, great men and women of the future are possibly being born every day, but ... |
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| Poison in the air |
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| POOR STANDARD |
| This is the season for constitutional improprieties. Take for one the inclusion of the name of the speaker of the Lok Sabha i...|
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| DANGER AHEAD |
| Everybody in this city, from political leaders to pavement-dwellers, knows about the deadly air pollution that has been killi...|
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| Chinese Chequers |
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The war of words between the Congress-led government and the Left over the contentious Indo-US nuclear deal has led to intens... | Read.. |
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| Give us this day our daily mush |
| Sometimes, while browsing in Calcutta’s glittering bookshops with dangerously slippery floors, I make the mistake of sliding to a stop at the Philosophy shelf. Nothing can be ... |
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| Bird flew |
| Is it true that most people read Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the first time after being gifted it by their love interests? It must be, or all the members of this au... |
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| Mate for the soul |
| I still remember the maudlin expression on my friend’s face as she gushingly described her new lover to me. Although I was too intrigued by that look of unqualified idiocy on ... |
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| Till you’re Fountaindead |
| The continuing popularity of Ayn Rand, especially her ability to draw even the irregular reader to her oeuvre of inelegant, often repugnant prose, is mystifying. It is even mo... |
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There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
— WILLIAM SAROYAN
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