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| Sylvan joy diminished |
| Politicians and peasants are a deadly combination in West Bengal |
| As Mamata Banerjee’s silence over the resort that is neither vedic nor a village reaches a deafening crescendo, I am reminded of an episode in Dhaka with Bhutan’s long-serving foreign minister, the late Dawa Tsering. Dawa had never heard of s... |
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| Fall from the perch |
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Sir — As a frequent traveller on the Sealdah-Delhi Rajdhani Express, I have noticed that its condit ... |
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| Trial and error |
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Sir — The Secondary Board of Education of Assam has decided to make Hindi compulsory in Class X, in ... |
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| THEY ARE NOT AMUSED |
| It is amazingly difficult to define fun. The concept is rich and confusing, culture-specific yet universal, innocent yet inca...|
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| Decidedly un-real |
| In her notes for a talk on the problems of writing poetry, made in the Sixties, the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop, remembers that her maternal grandmother had a glass eye. Q... |
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| Two different acts altogether |
| The most moving theatrical experience at the Rabindra Utsav (organized by Happenings), quite unexpectedly, came in the newly-introduced category of children’s theatre, ... |
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| A mind in music |
| The blurring of the distinction between the loved one and the worshipped one in some of Tagore’s songs and the consequent problems of their classification under the ... |
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| Pleasing strings
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| Santoor Ashram presented three young singers and musicians at the Birla Academy on July 28. The first artist, Amrita, was... |
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Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience — in winter expecting the sun of spring. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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