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| Towards positive change |
| Elections in India are cause for pride, governance is yet to be so |
| In India, astrologers are paid much better and respected far more than historians. But their profession is altogether more risky. Who, when the people of India went to the polls in the winter of 1951-2, could ever have predicted that this general ele... |
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| Hidden face |
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Sir — Some people may have savoured the media report on the legendary actress, Suchitra Sen (“Veil ... |
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| SCHOOLED IN PREVENTION |
| The official recognition of the phenomenon of sexual harassment at the workplace is one of the major successes of the women’s...|
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| Fraud instead of Freud |
| To supply the perennial demand for new scripts in Bengali theatre, many playwrights are increasingly turning to fiction for material. Nandipat’s Apad comes from a well-... |
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| Art and life in little boxes |
| It is easy to be charmed by the doll-like creatures that Nisreen Moochhala models out of clay and puts inside little boxes with painted backdrops, resembling tiny props in a p... |
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| Secret pangs |
| Hecate, the Greek goddess, could be glimpsed only as a pristine glow. Perhaps it was this luminous quality that inspired Rabindranath Tagore to fondly name Kadambari Devi — hi... |
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| Wild passion |
| Rajarshi Banerji’s passion for “photographic documentation of nature” was evident in Wild Visions, which was held till ... |
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| Fertilizer for the soul |
| While reading Rumi’s Mathnavi, I came across an anecdote that very aptly describes what common people should do to we... |
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Bert Lance believes he can save Uncle Sam billions if he can get the government to adopt a single motto: ‘If it ‘ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ He explains: ‘That’s the trouble with government: Fixing things that aren’t broken and not fixing things that are broken.—BERT LANCE
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