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| The fruit of taking sides |
| In a national crisis, parties might try to think beyond elections |
| In the summer of 2003, Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited the Kashmir Valley, the first prime minister to do so in more than a decade. The state government was then run by a coalition of the People’s Democratic Party and the Congress. When Vajpayee gave a ... |
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| Dark thoughts |
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Sir — I wish Mamata Banerjee had read the editorial, “Bengal: The Dark ages”(Aug 2), instead of spe ... |
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| WHOSE STRIKE IS IT? |
| A cat among the pigeons always raises a flurry of feathers. The feathers Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has ruffled most by his comm...|
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| Young adults having fun on the stage |
| Time for our periodic round-up of action in children’s theatre, which has developed so extensively in Calcutta over the last few years that it has virtually taken on the dimen... |
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| Urban chic turns into cliché |
| A n image in Jasmeen Patheja’s exhibition, Running Amok (August 2-13 at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road), brought to mind an untitled photograph made by the brilliant Czech ph... |
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| Blue cowboy among water nymphs |
| Looking at Haku Shah’s exhibition (Maanush, Aug 2-14), put up by Emami Chisel, one realizes the futility of making generalizations. For one would have thought that a ma... |
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
— GEORGE ORWELL
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