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| Too many hearses |
| The war in Afghanistan is coming home to roost |
| We returned last weekend from an all too brief stay in Italy, the never-never land of Silvio Berlusconi and his enormous ego. The straitjacket of northern European Protestantism would never permit the ongoing antics of this corrupt and, from a distan... |
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| Tall talk |
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Sir — While the editorial, “Talks sans terror” (July 18), concludes that “hawkish cynicism can ofte ... |
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| Pick up the bill |
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Sir — The state government has taken the right step by introducing a bill to make vandals pay up fo ... |
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| PARTY CHANGED |
| There is no better tonic for a political party than electoral success. Witness the Congress, which appears today as a transfo...|
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| ON TOP |
| Rewarding technologically savvy teachers with laptops is easier than realizing the now-buried dream of one laptop per child. ...|
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| Let the skies open |
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Early morning sounds of the koel’s plaintive plea to the rain god seems to have been ignored but the bird continues to sing w... | Read.. |
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| Welcome to the last show |
| As a child, I lived in a house next to a cinema hall. The single-screen theatre, a box-like building, with stained yellow walls, screened popular Hindi and Bengali films. Rath... |
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| Mirrors, murals and matinee idols |
| Once, when I was a tiny thing, and had just returned from our regular Saturday evening film show, my formidable uncle asked me which scene I liked best in the Hollywood Hercu... |
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
— OSCAR WILDE
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