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| Character and destiny |
| In cricket, what you do determines who you are |
| Sourav Ganguly’s retirement is a good time to reflect on the way in which so much cricket-writing is based on the odd premise that character is destiny. Since cricket-writing is a minor form even within sports-writing, it isn’t surprising that it bor... |
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| Last lap |
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Sir — Sourav Ganguly’s farewell from international cricket was in a match that will be remembered f ... |
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| TELLING FIGURES |
| The latest statistics released by the Centre on women’s higher education in India, distressing as they are, will shock nobody...|
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| CAPTAIN’S JOB |
| Cricket, despite the many changes and distortions introduced by the one-day variety and Twenty20, retains certain rituals and...|
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| The Power Of The Internet |
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In a country where nubile girls in the briefest of shorts invite barely a glance, a 11-year-old became the object of a drunk ... | Read.. |
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| Democracy is a sword with two edges |
| Even if Narendra Modi were not a politician, he would have done well on stage. During his rally in Rajnandgaon (the constituency of Chhattisgarh’s present chief minister), si... |
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| Different kinds of silence |
| The elections in Chhattisgarh are about a myriad voices: the shrill mikes, the booming, amplified echoes of contestants, the deafening sound of drums, pipes and tape recorders... |
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| March Past |
| Shadab Ahmad and Kunal Dharmani stood in front of Raipur’s Holy Cross Senior School, their hands across their eyes to keep away the sun. It will be a few years before Shadab ... |
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. — SAMUEL BECKETT
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