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| A school for democracy |
| The Congress taught India to vote and to speak its mind freely |
| A charge often laid at the door of the Indian National Congress is that it has doctored the school curricula to diminish the role of other actors in the freedom struggle. Thus the part played by the Bengali revolutionists in opposing British rule, or... |
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| Right to vote |
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Sir — I feel proud that I voted yesterday. Everybody who is above 18 years of age should vote becau ... |
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| Culture and the city |
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Sir — I must thank Amit Roy for his kind report on my talk at the London Book Fair, but of course a ... |
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| LOOMING THREAT |
| The United States of America is racking its brains. Since Madeleine Albright described Pakistan as an “international migraine...|
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| A necessary rite of passage |
| In terms of ambition, Ranan’s decision to stage Peter Shaffer’s Equus ranks pretty high, and should be applauded rather than considered foolhardy (which the director, V... |
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| Traditional fare |
| Of the three artists who recently showed their work at Studio 21 (Intersection, April 3-18), Sougata Das seemed to be the most promising. Beginning with pen-and-ink dra... |
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| From a faded past to enduring vividness |
| The past ambushes us in unexpected ways. It is as if Charu Guha’s photographs had been waiting to be exhibited in the space that was once his studio at the top floor of what w... |
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| Incredibly not India |
| It was difficult to recognize India in the gaudily painted canvases of the Russian artist, Elena Fedorovskaya ... |
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| Dear Toby in heaven |
| In the block of flats facing my window live Gurmit Kaur and her family. They have been living there for a long time but I bec... |
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But reading is not idleness... it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
— SIR STEPHEN HAROLD SPENDER
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