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| Gentlemen of the people |
| At one level, Indian communists remain prisoners of birth |
| A titled Englishwoman who represented a British philanthropic trust told me how nervous she had been about calling on Indrajit Gupta, then home minister in Deve Gowda’s government. North Block was uninviting and Gupta’s room bleak as she awaited her ... |
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| True believer |
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Sir — Harkishen Singh Surjeet passed away recently after a brief illness (“Master of coalition game ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — It’s heartbreaking to read about the fate that has befallen Afia Siddiqui (“The ‘torturous’ l ... |
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| OLYMPIAN EFFORT |
| History, as Marx famously said, “repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”. Although there has never been any dearth...|
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| Pure and innovative steps |
| Gurukul Dance Academy presented its annual offering, Nrityamela 2008, on July 13. It was a collection of performances in the Odissi style, presented by the students of ... |
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| From learning to knowing |
| When singing in public from little slips of paper has become de rigueur with the Tagorean orthodoxy in Calcutta, it was most reassuring to hear 20-year-old Gaurab Dutta... |
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| Beauty in a brutal world |
| It is a pleasure to introduce the next important Indian dramatist: Gowri Ramnarayan, from Chennai. JustUs Repertory’s Water Lilies gave enough evidence of a distinctive... |
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| They stoop to conquer |
| Some weeks ago, I wrote about vegetarianism in this column. I expressed my aversion to depriving a creature of its life only ... |
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To put it vulgarly, the whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder.
— CONSTANT LAMBERT
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