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| A voyage out |
| How Sailabala Das discovers that the Red Sea is not red |
| In 19th- and early-20th-century India, for the handful who crossed the kala pani, the black waters that led to the unknown, and wrote about their experiences, a description of the sea voyage was an accepted entrée. Of the few women who ... |
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| Two steps back |
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Sir — The two-day bank strike revealed how West Bengal is going back to a past when a live work cul ... |
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| Beauty with brains |
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Sir — The demise of Gayatri Devi has created a void in the hearts of her many admirers across the ... |
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| Spirited fighter |
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Sir — The courage shown by Sudan’s “trouser girl”, Lubna Hussein, deserves praise (“Whip me if you ... |
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| DOPE FOR PLAYERS |
| Success is the opium of Indian cricketers. Treated as icons by their fans, they begin to perceive themselves as such. This, n...|
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock.
— ORSON WELLES
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