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| A journey to Calcutta |
| Two Indian cities seen through the eyes of a German nobleman |
| On the morning of February 5, 1843, Lord Ellenborough buttoned his white jacket, adjusted his plumed hat, and stepped out of his tent. Outside, an elephant knelt, but it was too tall to climb on to by stepping on its bent leg. A ladder was brought, a... |
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| Due credit |
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Sir — I have read Chetan Bhagat’s novel, Five Point Someone, and have seen the movie, 3 I ... |
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| Subhuman |
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Sir — On September 11, 2009, somebody had badly beaten up a female stray dog in my locality, probab ... |
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| Memory loss |
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Sir — I had lost two cell phones at the security desk of the Dum Dum airport on January 7, while tr ... |
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| HUNDRED FLOWERS |
| The storm in a teacup regarding what Shashi Tharoor did or did not say about the foreign policy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi...|
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| STORM CENTRE |
| The recent siege of a hotel in downtown Srinagar was intended to revive an image of the valley that is slowly fading out from...|
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| Spoiling the earth |
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Mining licences have been the ticket to wealth, responsible for many rags-to-riches stories over the years. Politicians issue... | Read.. |
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| A painted boat on a restless river |
| Alam operates his small dinghy at Outram Ghat. His home is in Diamond Harbour, but since travelling back and forth every day is both hectic and expensive, he sleeps in his boa... |
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| MYSTERIOUS WAYS |
| “The river is a strong brown god”, wrote T.S. Eliot in “The Dry Salvages” of Four Quartets, “sullen, untamed and intractable”. If Sudipto Dey had read Eliot, he ... |
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. — TOM STOPPARD
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