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| Western border tensions |
| Changing mores of immigration officers |
| The immigration officer at Heathrow’s Terminal 2 is a young man, very polite, mildly chatty even, but I know he’s doing his job and checking me out. He has my three joined passports open in his hands and he’s riffling through them, smelling the compl... |
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Sir — The recent death of Shakti Samanta, the well-known director of innumerable films in Hindi, ha ... |
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Sir — On my first trip to Orissa, I was enchanted by its beauty. But what played spoilsport were th ... |
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| DRAW OF STUMPS |
| A tale of competing tamashas is too much for the imagination. Yet it is the reality. The month-long general elections ...|
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‘I’ll not hurt thee,’ says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, ‘I’ll not hurt a hair in thy head: — Go,’ says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; — ‘go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.’ — LAURENCE STERNE
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