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| Varieties of chauvinism |
| All that is written is subjected to the prejudices of identity |
| Several years ago, I wrote a piece in this space on the names of city streets. I spoke of the renaming of Calcutta’s Harrington Street as Ho Chi Minh Sarani, and of the dropping of caste surnames in Chennai streets. However, my article dealt mostly w... |
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| Why spare the babus? |
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Sir — Whichever government comes to power in the next general elections, the disinvestment of publi ... |
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| Brave ending |
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Sir — Although the British reality-television star, Jade Goody, had became famous for her racist co ... |
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| Enemy within |
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Sir — In his article, “Pakistan ’s achievement” (March 24), Ashok V. Desai is wrong when he says th ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — My heartiest congratulations to The Telegraph for carrying Mithu Alur’s article on the ... |
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| TIME’S ARROW |
| Bob Petrella, in his late fifties, and Jill Price, in her early forties, have unnaturally retentive memories. Ms Price rememb...|
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| Stories about women |
| Three Bengali directors approach gynocentric material in their latest works with different degrees of bravery. Through Rangrup’s Jalchhabi (picture), we welcome to the... |
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| Birds of a feather |
| Humour seldom takes centre stage in contemporary Indian art, especially if the art deals with as grave a subject as the Nation. Balaji Ponna’s Black-Smoke (Bose Pacia, ... |
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| Delicate harmony |
| Benoit Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, had coined the term, fractal, in 1975. Natural objects that are close to fractals to some extent are clouds, mountain ranges, lightn... |
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| Merry mood |
| Ekhon Basanta, Srabasti’s presentation of a medley of songs, dance and poetry at the Town Hall on February 28, was a tribute to the spirit of spring. Conceived and chor... |
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| Between dream and reality |
| Seeing the state of turmoil Pakistan is in today, I wonder what its chief architect and founding-father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhamma... |
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‘I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,’ he resumed....‘They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There’s nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — SAKI
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