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| Superpower fantasies |
| India should seek other goals than joining a global race |
| Before and after August 15, 2007, there was much talk in the press about this country’s imminent arrival as one of the world’s superpowers. This was prompted in part by the resilience of Indian nationhood — the fact that it had survived 60 testing y... |
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| The party is over |
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Sir — It is heartening to know that the Darul Uloom of Deoband has issued a fatwa against ...Read.. |
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| Not for comfort |
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Sir — When the Metro Railway was extended up to Dumdum, some elitist Calcuttans had feared that unr ... |
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| ON ECONOMY AVENUE |
| There is a societal cost for keeping a leader poor, as Sarojini Naidu once jokingly reminded Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The ...|
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| Linking the past with the present |
| It is easy to get seduced by the urbanity and precision of the woodcuts of 19th century Calcutta, executed in neighbourhoods such as Bat-tala, Garanhata and ... |
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| Fact into fiction |
| President Obama’s accession should erase hard times for American artists, who stood by his candidacy en masse. Unluckily... |
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| Eight clues to happiness |
| Having lived a reasonably contented life, I was musing over what a person should strive for to achieve happiness. I drew up a... |
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I remember summing up what I took to be our destiny, in conversation with my best friend at Chartres, by the formula, ‘Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
— C.S. LEWIS
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