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| That sense of menace |
| Ian Paisley may be retiring, but he leaves many inheritors |
| The sense of menace that envelops Western cities was sharply manifest last Monday when the passengers crammed into our Air India plane were suddenly ordered back into their seats after landing at Heathrow. It wasn’t because Ian Paisley, Northern Irel... |
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| Outrageous |
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Sir — The article by the dissident Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasreen, denouncing the burqa ... |
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| Too hot |
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Sir — Environmentalists and commuters have welcomed the new fleet of so-called ‘environment-friendl ... |
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| CASTE IN POWER |
| Caste is one of the thorniest issues in Indian society. Any discussion of it opens up spaces of ambiguity and hypocrisy. In a...|
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| Women take centre stage |
| What better way to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day than to celebrate the work of a new generation of actresses in Mumbai, assembled by the prolific Akvarious Produ... |
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| A lasting romance with paint |
| The first thing that you note about the art of Sourav Chatterjee is his romance with paint. He is taken up with its quality, for example, and its colours; particularly with th... |
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| Inner vision |
| Debal Sen’s photographs of nature were less about landscapes than about states of mind. So much so, that he seems to have clicked his camera keeping in mind the title of the e... |
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Barney’s dad was really bad/ So Barney hatched a plan/ When his dad said, ‘Eat your peas’/ Barney shouted ‘NO’ and ran.// Barney tricked his mean ol’ dad/ And locked him in the cellar/ His mom never found out where he’d gone/ ‘Cause Barney didn’t tell her.// There his dad spent his life/ Eating mice and gruel/ With every bite for fifty years/ He was sorry he’d been cruel.— BILL WATTERSON
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