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| No children to devour |
| The auto is safe as long as mobs reign instead of the law |
| It won’t be as easy getting to Kalighat or Jatin Das Park station if autorickshaws disappear or are immobilized. I can take a taxi, but if extra time and cost don’t matter, I might as well do so for the entire journey. Besides, I enjoy the adventure ... |
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| Holier than thou |
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Sir — Abhijit Bhattacharyya eulogizes China’s anti-corruption measures. It penalized 151,000 corrup ... |
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| Life in danger |
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| Parting shot |
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| DOWN UNDER, UNNOTICED |
| In spite of its self-styled pretensions of being more than a game — and being actually a way of life, a culture — cricket has...|
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| Words into pigment |
| It is difficult to talk about the life-size paintings of Bari Kumar without sounding glib. At a glance, these towering compositions, featuring severed body parts or amputated ... |
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| Melodies from another Calcutta |
| Babu Kolkatar Manchagaan, a programme on theatre music of Calcutta — beginning from the late 18th century and covering two centuries — was held at Rabindra Sadan as par... |
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| The most useless gift |
| I received the most expensive and the most useless book I know of as a new year’s gift: price, Rs 12,500; name of the book, ... |
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My answers are inadequate/ To those demanding day and date/ And ever set a tiny shock/ Through strangers asking what’s o’clock;/ Whose days are spent in whittling rhyme — / What’s time to her, or she to Time?
— DOROTHY PARKER
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