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| The blindness of bigots |
| Education is no bar against a dangerously selective view of facts |
| The internet is, among other things, a vehicle for egotism and bad taste. In blogs and emails, some people tend to express themselves more freely, that is to say more crudely, than they would in letters sent by post or in signed articles in the press... |
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| A star is dropped |
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Sir — The omission of Sourav Ganguly from the Rest of India team for the Irani Cup was only to be e ... |
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| WILL BENGALIS LEARN? |
| There is trouble in paradise. If the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, and his cup-bearer, the minister...|
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| As the mind moves |
| The most distinguished work being shown in Concepts & Ideas 2008 (CIMA, until today) are by two artists, in their early fifties, based outside Bengal. Both have cho... |
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| Played to perfection |
| Among the best treatments of raga Ahir Bhairav that I have heard live so far, was one in the late-Seventies by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. His elder son, Amaan Ali Khan, came r... |
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| Facts, fictions, fantasies |
| The legend of Lalan Fakir (c. 1774-1890), like those of most pre-modern Indian icons, constitutes such a maze of apocrypha that to glean the few grains of factual truth... |
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| Time to call it a day |
| When a person can no longer look after himself, it is time for him to call it a day. This is easier said than done. For one, ... |
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The distortion of the Marxist idea that developed in Russia was as great, and of the same character, as the distortion of the Christian teaching at the time of the Inquisition. But it is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his. — ALAN FREEMAN
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