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| Poised on a seesaw |
| Helping Afghanistan stabilize would be good for India’s future |
| While all the other employees excitedly discussed the impending regime change in a company I knew, an elderly Karnataka Brahmin asked philosophically, “What difference does it make whether Ram rules or Ravana rules?” Afghanistan’s prolonged trauma is... |
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Sir — China recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, but ... |
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| OUT IN THE OPEN |
| Did you know that October 15 was World Handwashing Day? To many, this piece of information would have a trivial and faintly a...|
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| Artists of the changing world |
| Shaibal Ghosh was a talented watercolour artist, who will be remembered for his continuing efforts at bestowing on this medium the gravitas of oil colours. Ghosh died an untim... |
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| Dramatic patterns |
| The department of information and cultural affairs, West Bengal State Music Academy, organized Nrityanatya Utsav at Madhusudan Mancha recently. The four-day festival featured ... |
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| Different rhythms |
| A school for percussionists, Rhythm celebrated its 28th year at the Birla Academy of Arts & Culture on October 10-11 with a programme of classical music. The first artist ... |
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| OLD WINE |
| Epic Actors Workshop’s Bipanna Bismay reminds us a lot of Molière’s classic satire, The Imaginary Invalid... |
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| Do not sleep, it’s Diwali |
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The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.
— PATRICIA DALE-GREEN
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