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| One cheer for the IPL |
| There is more to Sanath Jayasuria than brute strength |
| I must admit that some good came out of the Indian Premier League after all — the great Sri Lankan batsman, Sanath Jayasuriya, withdrew his retirement from international cricket.... |
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| Class apart |
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Sir — The teachers in West Bengal face utter humiliation during elections and census. Election and ... |
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| OPEN UP THE MIND |
| A harbinger of modernity cannot be bound by prejudice. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, sees himse...|
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| Faith and despair |
| In his book, Joy Baba Felunath, Satyajit Ray gives a wonderful account of the sights and smells of Benaras. The ancient, ornate houses with tiny figures in bright paint... |
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| Virtual inscapes |
| Uttiya Majumdar’s exhibition of digital art prints, Grunge Matter (Gaganendranath Pradarshashala, June 28-30), looked experimental in Calcutta. But digital art is as ol... |
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| Staged to enthral |
| Debesh Chattopadhyay, director of one of the best Bengali productions at present — Sansriti’s Surya Pora Chhai — acknowledges inspiration from Primo Levi’s autobiograph... |
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| Muted celebration |
| Gallery K2 celebrated its first anniversary by holding an exhibition titled, Art and Industry (June 23 to July 7). Since it was a celebratory occasion, it was not wrong... |
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| Love in turbulent times |
| It is a sordid tale. But as told by Moni Mohsin in her novel, The End of Innocence, it is gripping. All the characters... |
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You do not know/ The noxious smell untraceable in the drains,/ Inaccessible to the plumbers, that has its hour of the night; you do not know/ The unspoken voice of sorrow in the ancient bedroom/ At three o’clock in the morning. I am not speaking/ Of my own experience, but trying to give you/ Comparisons in a more familiar medium. — T.S. ELIOT
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