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| Sports and the nation |
| In spite of newspaper convention, sports and politics do mix |
| The newspaper’s front page conventionally deals with politics and economics; the last page, with lighter subjects such as sport. This division reflects two views, or prejudices, or assumptions; that readers like to begin with issues of import, and that sport and politics do not or should not mix.... |
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| Conspiracy theories |
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Sir — The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in the habit of issuing controversial statemen ... |
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| Candid camera |
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Sir — Most of the so-called swamis are cheats and liars, having no consideration for the tru ... |
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| Difficult drive |
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Sir — The national highways, which the National Democratic Alliance government started building, ar ... |
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| TINY SLICE OF SKY |
| The deed is about to be done. Reserved seats for women have climbed from buses up to the Rajya Sabha; time will show whether ...|
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| Deadweight |
| Installation art can be tricky business. The first part — that is the installation — may not be too difficult (in fact, Marcel Duchamp’s urinal showed how easy it could all be... |
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| Unfamiliar etchings |
| Printmaker Yashpal Chandrakar was trained at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, and is now based in Delhi where he has established a studio and, by all appearances, enjoys a flouris... |
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| Running in the family |
| Performing at Kala Mandir on February 9, sitar player Nishat Khan showed he has developed along expected lines over the years. The core of his style showed itself in the first... |
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| Whenever there is a storm |
| When I received an invitation to the launch of The Last Sunset: Rise and Fall of the Lahore Durbar by Amarinder Singh,... |
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Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,/ When I have no engagements written on my block,/ When no one comes to disturb my inward peace,/ When no one comes to take me away from myself/ And turn me into a patchwork, a jigsaw puzzle. — VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST
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