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| Kitsch in everyday life |
| Sugary imitation is safe from a search for meaning |
| If I were to draw a picture of a typical middle-class Indian home around the time I was growing up, I would leave out some things we now take for granted. The TV set, for example, or the cordless phone and the computer. Instead, I would sketch in som... |
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| Costly measures |
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Sir — The report, “Penny wise, pound foolish austerity trip” (Sept 15), attempts to decry the effor ... |
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| Keep the faith |
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Sir — The tragedy of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center is too terrible to give up ... |
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| False promises |
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Sir — Now that the Maharashtra assembly elections are round the corner, the political parties seem ... |
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| TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED |
| “Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation,” wrote a modern American poet. Here, ‘relation’ is used both as ‘a set of ...|
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At one early, glittering dinner party at Buckingham Palace, the trembling hand of a nervous waiter spilled a spoonful of decidedly hot soup down my neck. How could I manage to ease his mind and turn his embarrassed apologies into a smile, except to put on a pretended frown and say, without thinking: “Never darken my Dior again.”
— BEATRICE LILLIE
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