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| Crossing the bar |
| Should assisted suicide be legalized in India? |
| If the ban on assisted suicide, now being hotly debated in Britain, had ever been enforced, the royal family might have been behind bars. For historians claim they were complicit in the lethal injection of cocaine and morphine that ensured that Geo... |
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| Clean game |
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Sir — The sports minister, M.S. Gill, while trying to convince Indian cricketers to fall in line wi ... |
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| Bad idea |
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Sir — It surprises me how an educated individual like Abhishek Bachchan agreed to be associated wit ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — In response to the Auto Bachao Committee, a ‘Nagarik Bachao Committee’ should be set up. Afte ... |
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| WHAT BIRDS KNOW |
| Somewhere in the course of European history, post 17th-century, man began to see himself as being distinct and superior to na...|
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| Art as an extension of activism |
| It is widely known that theatreperson Saoli Mitra has for years been campaigning against SEZs, short for special economic zones. She has written extensively ... |
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| An overcast sky on a fairy terrain |
| Ganges Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Eternal Landscape (till August 15), features seven artists. It is obvious from the title that all the participants focus exclus... |
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| Intricate movements |
| Srishti Dances of India, an US based Odissi dance company, presented Shatarupa, an evening of Odissi dance, at Gyan Manch on August 1. Initiated into the Odissi ... |
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| Pleasant moments |
| Pratima Bandopadhyay presented a programme to mark the birth anniversary of her husband, late Sundar Narayan Bandopadhyay... |
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| Beauty that never fades |
| In my long life, I have had the good fortune of meeting many beautiful women, ranging from film stars such as Ingrid Bergman ... |
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Mr Spooner has a habit of transferring his syllables, so that it is no unusual experience for the members of New College to hear their late Dean give out in a chapel a well-known sentence in the unintelligible guise of ‘Kinkering Kongs their tykles tate’.
— WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER
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