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| A vote for the system |
| Public participation in the polls belied the threat of disaffection |
| The frenzied week between the attack on Mumbai and vote counting in four states and Delhi recalled Kunwar Natwar Singh’s story about Indira Gandhi’s advice when he gave up the foreign service for politics. He was ordering a khadi wardrobe when... |
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| Star in town |
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Sir — The visit of Diego Maradona to Calcutta appears to have done little to improve the dwindling ... |
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| DIFFERENT MESSAGES |
| Eid was different this time. The sorrow and fear that enveloped Indians in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack cast a g...|
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| Endless invention |
| The problem of art and its afterlife is endlessly fascinating. At a basic level, all that it involves is, simply, the chance of living on beyond the mortal creator. But more i... |
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| An enchanting web |
| Mayar Khela is an opera by Rabindranath Tagore that has been staged repeatedly, more for its music than for its dramatic content. In fact, the romantic theme of the pla... |
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| Fluttering in the wind |
| Every people all over the world have created symbols that emphasize their separate identities. The commonest among them are t... |
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How true it is, that there is nothing dead in this Universe; that what we call dead is only changed, its forces working in an inverse order! ‘The leaf that lies rotting in moist winds,’ says one, ‘has still force; else how could it rot?’
— THOMAS CARLYLE
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