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| Confessions of a tennis old-timer |
| Watching Roger Federer for the nth time in the finals of the US Open, it occurred to me that Rod Laver had been my first tennis hero and I had never once seen him play. No one under thirty can say that without seeming daft. But if you were born in In... |
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| Suffering in private |
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| On the road |
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Sir — One can feel the approach of the Pujas nowadays not so much by the changes in weather as by ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Nowadays, we get to hear about Mukesh Ambani’s anniversary plans, Sachin Tendulkar’s new vil ... |
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| DARK MATTER |
| This could be the end of the world as we know it. Quite literally so. Sceptics quaked in apprehension as the Large Hadron Col...|
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| BLACK SWAN |
| When it comes to cutting down the number of non-European immigrants staying on in Britain, there seem to be two ways of going...|
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| Tread With Caution |
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Asif Ali Zardari has arrived at last. He was sworn in as the Pakistani president on September 9. What next? What would be the... | Read.. |
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| Mind the gap, just for seven days |
| An unfamiliar setting. A fast-crowding-up Metro compartment, but it’s a crowd with a gender-bias — or should we call it gender-fairness? It’s one of the two Ladies Only compar... |
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| Comfortably numb again |
| KP has a name, but she wouldn’t tell you what it is. First names are passé, it seems, just as Ladies’ Nights have become in Calcutta’s clubs and discos. A successful professio... |
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| Getting there |
| When Ruma Banik’s husband beats her up, he is not always drunk. Or, at least, not very drunk. But if there is one major pretext for his violence, it is sexual jealousy. How ma... |
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I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
— CHRISTOPHER FRY
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