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| The crown in the gutter |
| In India, democracy creates its own royals |
| Watching continuous processions of election candidates, it occurs to me that few spectacles could be less democratic than the world’s largest democracy at work. What I gaze upon from the broken pavements of urban slums in south India are not people’s... |
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| A rudderless front |
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| Troubled hills |
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| Parting shot |
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| JUST A WEE CHINK OF SKY |
| Half the sky is an optimistic estimate in most of India. In places like West Bengal, there might just be, officially, 933 wo...|
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| The long wait for deliverance |
| After having lapsed into suspended animation for six years, Calcutta Performers has staged a comeback to Bengali theatre with a thoughtful production on family ties. The title... |
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| Climbing and waltzing |
| As I look back, neither the un-ergonomic seating nor the clichéd ill-omens associated with the date (Friday, March 13) had any effect on the opening tutti of the Fle... |
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| And April will be beautiful |
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There was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my entire life... And then, while I kept moving through my passageway, she lived her normal life outside, the exciting life of people who live outside. — ERNESTO SÁBATO
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