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| Two hurt, nobody dead |
| The all-too-human frailty of poets |
| One of the now-abandoned traditions of the literary magazine, Granta, was that it never, or hardly ever, published poetry. In my dozen years as editor, I think I published three poems — by Michael Ondaatje, Les Murray and Vikram Seth. My prede... |
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| All in the family |
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Sir — In “The winner takes all” (May 29), Swapan Dasgupta rues the success of family-run parties in ... |
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| Killer smoke |
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Sir — The Indian government has celebrated “No Tobacco Day” on May 31 in a perfunctory manner. It h ... |
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| HUMPTY DUMPTY WINS |
| Words brook no bans. They pour into languages in an irresistible stream — from other languages, distant coinages, names and t...|
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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