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| The common thread |
| The idea of India is being turned into a permissive nightmare |
| Like the proverbial bad penny, secularism has re-entered the public discourse with gusto. Concerns over the agitation in Jammu over a land transfer to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board, the pro-azadi stir in the Kashmir valley, the Hindu-Christian... |
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| Troubled land |
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Sir — The editorial, “Twilight of a state” (Aug 31), declares Mamata Banerjee to be “a political le ... |
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| TALKS ON A RUIN |
| Singur is a chronicle of a disaster foretold. This might appear to be an exaggerated conclusion in the midst of news that a s...|
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| EXITS TO STAY |
| Democracy is something to be officially celebrated as well as feared. This ambivalence informs the Indian State, and manifest...|
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| Time and tide wait for none |
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Political manipulations, negative and self-serving, indulged in by almost all parties in India, along with the ruthless jocke... | Read.. |
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste, and men without individuality have no taste — at any rate no taste that they can impose on their publics. — ARNOLD BENNETT
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| Secret springs |
| “Fiction — if it at all aspires to be art — appeals to temperament,” wrote Joseph Conrad in his... |
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