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| The Hindu Jinnah? |
| Comparing Advani to Jinnah may be unfair to the latter |
| On September 27, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, L.K. Advani, found himself in the town of Moradabad, in western Uttar Pradesh; two days later he was at the other end of the country, spending the night in the capital of Meghalaya, Shillong.... |
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| Identity crisis |
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Sir — A new ATM has come up at the Rash Behari Avenue crossing. The board above the entrance says “ ... |
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| Great distress |
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Sir — The results of the opinion poll on the greatest living Bengali (Oct 6) conducted by CNN-IBN ... |
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| PINING FOR MR PYNE |
| What unites, and divides, Sourav Ganguly and Ganesh Pyne? They are both Bengali; and the former topped while the latter ranke...|
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| Different strokes |
| In a year in which most exhibitions seemed to be weighed down by a dull, leaden quality, and curators, if any, did not seem to be much aware of their responsibilities, Aakriti... |
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| Stench of death |
| From Tagore’s Dakghar to Selim Al-Deen’s Hargaj and Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Andha Beral, Swapna-sandhani shows a growing obsession with death — which Koush... |
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| With great control and passion |
| On September 16, the Calcutta School of Music presented the Canadian pianist, Mathieu Gaudet (picture), in a recital at the Sandré Hall. Commencing with J.S. Bach’s French Sui... |
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| From Napoleon to Shivaji |
| All Indians are proud of the achievements of Chhatrapati Shivaji, and of the Marathas, who once ruled the subcontinent, their... |
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Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot. — G.K. CHESTERTON
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