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| A foreign country |
| What did Britain remember on Remembrance Sunday? |
| Watching last Sunday’s solemn ritual at the Cenotaph in London, I wondered how many in the dense crowd noticed the prominent role accorded to Commonwealth high commissioners (including India’s Nalin Surie) while the ambassadors even of the United Sta... |
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| Freedom to choose |
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Sir — Cambridge University’s decision to allow women to wear the burqa below their mortar bo ... |
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| Unbalanced views |
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Sir — The media were full of praise for Sachin Tendulkar’s superb knock in Hyderabad (“Sachin keeps ... |
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| Tall claims |
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Sir — The day the article, “Prod for riverfront project” (Nov 6), appeared in The Telegraph, ... |
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| KEEP THEM SEPARATE |
| There is something audacious about the proposal that the Supreme Court should take over the task of making laws. The argument...|
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| For a new world order |
| Aaranjan (Delhi) and Indian People’s Theatre Association (Mumbai) placed before Hindi audiences in Calcutta the grasping tentacles of the new world order and globalization res... |
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| Breathtakingly dull |
| The exhibition at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Roving Eye Presents Why Woman (Nov 1-7), raised a lot of questions while not quite answering the one implicit in the title. Th... |
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| Too clever by half |
| It was probably Somerset Maugham who pointed out that there are only about half-a-dozen stories in the history of literature, and writers keep recycling them in different form... |
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| Remembering the iron lady |
| The 25th death anniversary of Indira Gandhi occasioned a flood of literature and huge media coverage across the country. That... |
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‘Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end’, harrumphed French Film Maker Georges Franju at a symposium some years back. ‘Certainly’, replied Jean-Luc Godard. ‘But not necessarily in that order.’
— JEAN-LUC GODARD
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