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| The Speir dynasty |
| A long tryst with India |
| Alexander Speir, a cadet under training in the Royal Military College, Marlow, in 1802, was extremely short of money. His father, Archibald, was a rich man in Glasgow, but he had told his son never to get in touch with him because he did not want his... |
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| Smooth ride |
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Sir — The railways minister, Lalu Prasad, should be credited for presenting yet another successful ... |
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Sir — The editorial, “Knock on the right door” (Feb 22), examines the critical issue of domestic an ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — I was delighted to read Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s article on Victor Kiernan (“Illusion of an epo ... |
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| HALL OF MIRRORS |
| Cinema, like theatre, must use real people in order to exist materially. And ‘use’ is not the cleanest of words. Linked in it...|
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| REAL CULPRITS |
| The government of Manipur is facing a paradox. The explosion of popular anger at the killing of three government employees by...|
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| Shed the Dead Skin |
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Narendra Modi seems very perturbed and a trifle uncomfortable with the regular presence of Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat. The visit... | Read.. |
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| Reaching out to the back rows |
| In Satyajit Ray’s film, Aparajito, an inspector comes on a visit to a village school and asks a class the meaning of a Bengali word. The incident turns out to be serend... |
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| On a hot and dusty morning |
| It is easy to guess that the general elections are round the corner from the zeal with which the roads of Calcutta and its outskirts are being dug up, apparently to repair the... |
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
— W.H. AUDEN
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