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| Capture and control |
| Mamata Banerjee knows how to keep her motley crew titillated |
| The outcome of Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s imaginative initiative, setting a new benchmark for gubernatorial involvement in crisis management, may not matter much to Mamata Banerjee since Singur, like Nandigram, is only another stop on her relentless march... |
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| Mona Lisa smile |
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Sir — The photograph of Mamata Banerjee on page 7 of The Telegraph (Aug 26) spoke a thousand ... |
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| Minor triumph |
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Sir — The Delhi court, which on September 2 convicted businessman Sanjeev Nanda in the infamous BMW ... |
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| Ode to a shoemaker |
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Sir — The demise of Thomas Bata at the age of 93 has probably left most Calcuttans feeling sad like ... |
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| BENGAL’S RESPONSIBILITY |
| An important expressway has been lying blocked for over ten days. On Monday, a gigantic rally brought the city of Calcutta to...|
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| Reflected glory |
| The Old Masters, as W.H. Auden said wisely, “were never wrong”. Intelligent gallerists have their own ways of making sense of the Masters. They know that nothing would ever go... |
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| The elusive mood |
| The three-day Rabindrasangeet conference organized by Dakshinee on August 22, 23 and 24 began with songs arranged in taals created by Tagore. They made for a bad start.... |
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| Epic journey |
| Who can forget Tomari matir kanya, Aranya amrita, or the other remarkable choreographies done by Manjusri Chaki Sirkar? Dancers’ Guild, established by Manjusri a... |
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| Child’s play |
| The sculpture of Subrata Biswas, who was trained at Rabindra Bharati, and whose works were exhibited at the Aakriti Art Gallery (Aug 6-16), is dominated (if that is the right ... |
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| A song for the promised day |
| India should help Pakistan establish democracy, since justice cannot prevail in the subcontinent in its absence, writes Surendra Munshi |
| Asma Jahangir, the renowned human rights activist and lawyer from Pakistan, was in Calcutta recently. She came at the invitat... |
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There can be nothing so gratifying to an author as to arouse the respect and esteem of the reader. Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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