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| A season of betrayals |
| Two films and what they notice |
| A month ago, we found ourselves watching Attenborough’s Gandhi again, with its familiar mixture of earnestness and calculated design — largely because of our eleven-year-old daughter’s unexpected interest in nationalist history. ... |
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| Money in a muddle |
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Sir — It is a matter of deep concern that a great many fake currency notes are in circulation. This ... |
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| Richly left |
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Sir — The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has at last recognized the need to improve its image i ... |
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| Head over heels |
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Sir — The editorial, “Focused elsewhere”(Sept 6), rightly points out that “it needed no research to ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The home minister has clarified that the Centre cannot take action against Bengal’s Maoists u ... |
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| KISS AND DON’T TELL |
| Nancy Mitford, forgotten arch-priest of gossiphood, writes to one of her sisters, in the Forties, about Louis XIV’s nephew. H...|
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. — C.P. SNOW
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