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| The means to an end |
| How India’s Look East policy could be made more effective |
| The word, “effective”, in Rajeev Paralikar’s e-mail intrigued me. Admissions of fallibility are rare in this country, yet here was a bunch of scholarly institutions (including the Calcutta chapter of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies which Parali... |
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| Unequal treatment |
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Sir — As of now, the government has spent Rs 31 crore on the upkeep of the dreaded 26/11 terrorist, ... |
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| Fresh insight |
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Sir — We are familiar with cases in which women are tortured by their in-laws or husbands. But the ... |
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| In memoriam |
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Sir — Why do we tend to forget the best theatre and film personalities of Bengal? December 11,which ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Almost a month has passed since the anomalous Part I and Part II results of the undergraduate ... |
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| JUST TOO LITTLE |
| Why did it take 19 years for a molestation case to reach sentencing? Of all the questions raised by the shameful outcome of R...|
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| Offerings from the margins |
| Far-eastern India (“Northeast” being a geographical misnomer) occupied pride of place at Nandikar’s National Theatre Festival, to the extent that even Dhaka Theatre’s Dhabo... |
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| Fusion with a difference |
| Each classical dance form has a rich technique and a strict format designed by the great maestros. But a possibility to experiment and innovate is always there. The balance be... |
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| On November 11 this year, I rang my friend, Lyndon Evans, the chief architect and builder of the Large Hadron Collider at the... |
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One evening in October when I was one-third sober.../ My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter,/ And a pig came up an’ lay down by my side;/ Then we sang ‘It’s all fair weather when good friends get together,’/ Till a lady passing by was heard to say:/ ‘You can tell a man who “boozes” by the company he chooses’/ And the pig got up and slowly walked away — BENJAMIN BURT
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