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| Searching for Charlie |
| A real Christian and a gentleman |
| It was on my last trip to Calcutta that I went searching for the grave of Charlie Andrews. A friend had told me that it was in a cemetery on Lower Circular Road. I decided to walk there from my hotel in Park Street. Fortunately, it was winter, so the... |
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| Bust the racket |
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Sir — The Telegraph’s sustained campaign against the polluting autorickshaws is much appreci ... |
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| Tied and tested |
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Sir — Of late, there have been numerous reports of physical abuse by school teachers. The recent on ... |
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| MUTINY ABOUT BOUNTY |
| It is bleakly ironic, in view of the February 25 mutiny, that the Bangladesh Rifles troops are hailed as “vigilant sentinels”...|
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| Banished to a forgotten corner |
| Ever active, involved in some aspect of theatre or the other, Rangakarmee took another step forward at its Natya Mahotsav this year by presenting three new hour-long productio... |
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| Unison without conviction |
| On Wednesday, February 11, Scotland and Seagram’s 100 Pipers in collaboration with the British Council, Calcutta, presented Samaagam, featuring the Scottish Chamber Orc... |
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| Different styles |
| Amal Ghosh and Peter Daglish are two senior artists from London who visit Calcutta quite frequently. Their media are vitreous enamel and linocut print respectively, and their ... |
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| Poor copies |
| Ganges Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Young Blood (till tomorrow), features young artists from Santiniketan. That is quite obvious from the work of Sabir Ali whose l... |
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| Grow old along with me |
| I do not subscribe to Robert Browning’s subsequent two lines in the poem, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”: “The best is yet to be/ The last ... |
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The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other — I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
— SAMUEL BUTLER
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