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| Beyond politics |
| Right or wrong, not Right or Left |
| My most distinguished student at Presidency College, I saw in my morning paper, had been recalling his own college days in Calcutta. While doing so he mentioned several distinguished members of the intelligentsia of Calcutta of that time — some of wh... |
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| Gap widens |
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Sir — In “Wishes are not horses” (June 19), Ashok Mitra states that “anti-poverty measures did not, ... |
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| Blot on the shine |
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Sir — It is quite shocking to know that the picture of the man inside a prison van hiding his face ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Global warming is an imbalance in nature caused by unplanned growth and development. Carbon d ... |
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| THE OCHRE ROBE |
| The fundamental dilemma of the Bharatiya Janata Party was manifest when the party’s national executive met after the party’s ...|
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| VEILED MEANINGS |
| The debate is not new in France, only this time it is more dramatic. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has declared that...|
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| A Message from the people |
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Should public opinion sway judges? The verdict in the case that has rocked China — that of a 21-year-old hotel employee who s... | Read.. |
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| Reality’s house of mirrors |
| “All the world’s a stage” — Shakespeare once wrote. Today, he may have wanted to change the word “stage” to “reality show,” had he watched Prashant Tamang win in the music rea... |
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| Love by chance |
| In the Mahabharat, Arjun won Draupadi’s hand by accomplishing two formidable tasks at her swayamvar. He strung a bow that none (save Karna) could lift, and then ... |
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| A fly on one’s own wall |
| Reality should bore us to death, but it doesn’t. To die of ennui would be surreal. But when bored we watch TV — and how better to beat boredom than Reality TV? As I zap... |
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
— BILL SHANKLY
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