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| Return of history |
| The Battle of Britain is being lost without a shot being fired |
| An East Bengali in England People Very Nice, Richard Bean’s hilarious play about three ethnic waves of immigrants in London’s East End that recently premiered at the National Theatre, laments that the four beautiful Indian women with whom he ... |
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| Royal treatment |
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Sir — It would cost Rs 5 lakh to convert Jyoti Basu’s bedroom into an intensive care unit ... |
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| Touchy topic |
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Sir — I suppose our leaders are oblivious to the promises they made to the electorate and ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The traffic conditions on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road in central Calcutta are disastrous. There ar ... |
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| COMRADES’ UTOPIA |
| One party’s utopia is the common man’s hell. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) should be proud that it has established i...|
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| Serenity and turmoil |
| Of the three artists now showing at Galerie 88 (until July 31), Amritah Sen’s work is the most distinguished. Sen has put together a series, tellingly called Halfway, w... |
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| Experiments with a difference |
| From Malayali to Mauritian forms, experiments continue on Tagore’s oeuvre, flying in the face of objections from the likes of Girish Karnad, who has set Tagore up ... |
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| Sweet sound of bard song |
| It is often said that one of the best indices of Shakespeare’s timeless popularity is the translation and adaptation of his plays around the world. In Bengal, this ... |
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| What happened to Pakistan? |
| Choudhary Rahmat Ali coined the word, ‘Pakistan’ — made up of regions that he hoped would be free from the taint of infidelit... |
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I’m tired of earning my own living, paying my own bills, raising my own child. I’m tired of the sound of my own voice crying out in the wilderness, raving on about equality and justice and a new social order.... Self-sufficiency is exhausting.... It’s so hard to be a feminist if you are a woman.
— JANE O’ REILLY
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