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| Art-delusion |
| An inverted urinal, a set of sepia photos — what makes an artist? |
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Sir — It is distressing to read about the devastation caused by the earthquake in western China (“H ... |
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| Strange obsessions |
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Sir — The editorial, “Special focus”, and K.P. Nayar’s piece, “Spinning out of control”, both publi ... |
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Sir — It has become a common practice with ministers to rename places after famous people. The rail ... |
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| CLOISTERED VICE |
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She was thinking — for since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other way — that all this had been described in Dickens, Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silent — for here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding.
— DORIS MAY LESSING
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