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| A different mix altogether |
| London’s Baishakhi Mela and notions of identity |
| While South Asia is tearing itself apart in different pockets, there is a large corner of East London where, on a breezy Sunday in May, thousands of people, most of them, but not all, Asians, most but not all Bangali, are gathered for a Baishakhi Mel... |
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| Similar performance |
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Sir — One had hoped that Ashok Chavan would be different as a chief minister from Vilasrao Deshmuk ... |
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| Bold admission |
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Sir — Although it may be known to many, the fact that the Taliban are a creation of the Inter-Servi ... |
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| Party above people |
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Sir — In a democracy, people are supposed to vote for a party and not for the individual nominated ... |
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| USE OF DISCRETION |
| A fractured popular mandate is a president’s nightmare. It is one of the few occasions when the president is forced to use he...|
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| A menacing edge to a rarefied elegance |
| Around this time last year, the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre had organized an exhibition of Somnath Hore’s prints, which brought together some of his earliest studie... |
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| Comedies riddled with too many errors |
| For an obscure play written in 1865, The Newly Married Couple is pretty farsighted. Yet this should come as no surprise because the author, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, won t... |
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| Lessons in life and music |
| It is sad that classical music has ceased to be a natural part of the education of the young. To learn to play an instrument or two reasonably well, to listen to serious music... |
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| Sweet taste in the mouth |
| I have acquired some traits from my role model, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. The first two are a taste for quality mangoes an... |
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
— BERTRAND RUSSELL
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