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| Two anniversaries |
| Martyrdom and mass murder |
| The two events were deeply connected. Since the security men who killed the prime minister happened to be Sikhs, the Congress thought it fit to take revenge on members of that community, rather than wait for the law to take care of the individuals gu... |
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| Recognition, at last |
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Sir — It is heartening to see how far the Nobel committee has come in the last 50 years in recogniz ... |
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| Paradise regained |
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Sir — I am a Bengali tourist, and I have just returned from a visit to Kashmir. I would like to res ... |
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| Low but lucrative |
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Sir — It is perhaps not appropriate to link the craze for a Group D job in government offices with ... |
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| RULES OF ENGAGEMENT |
| Chess and card games hold valuable clues to statecraft, especially in battles of attrition. The deal between the Bengal gover...|
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| Twisting trail of rare melodies |
| The Alladiya Khan gharana, also called the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, is known for its penchant for lesser-known ragas. So it was not in the least surprising that there ... |
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| A different language |
| Two young local groups recently performed challenging projects, their difficulty quotient multiplied by the adoption of unfamiliar languages normally not heard in Calcutta the... |
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| What is left unsaid |
| The photography exhibition, Face Up (Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Oct 10-22), brought together the works of two photographers, Sunil Gupta and Anna Fox. Gupt... |
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| The drinkers’ dictionary |
| English and other European languages have innumerable words for different levels of drunkenness. We have very few in our lang... |
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
— DORIS LESSING
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