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| That liberal hour |
| Economic planning began with the dreams of a young India |
| Once one reaches a certain age, deaths of even very close friends cease to cause much of a convulsion. Perhaps a defence mechanism is at work: the mind has a limited absorptive capacity; it can take in this much of sad tidings, and nothing beyond. Be... |
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| Dress down |
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| EASIER WAY |
| It is astonishing what can go down in the name of political correctness. Get women to fill up a respectable number of seats i...|
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| PEOPLE’S POWER |
| Burning coffins, breaking a pot before the statue of King Taksin, throwing plastic bags full of rotten fish, and even pouring...|
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| The green vanishes |
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We are a strange lot. On the one hand, you have the prime minister and his senior colleagues expressing ‘deep’ concern about ... | Read.. |
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No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. An opera plot must be, in both senses of the word, a melodrama.
— W.H. AUDEN
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| In search of the soul |
| Samina Quraeshi interprets the idea of the sacrosanct as “a place where one feels connected to something larger ... |
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| Hidden stories |
| It is a pity that the pre-publication publicity for Andrew Rawnsley’s second book on the New Labour experienc ... |
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