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| The decline of Bengali food |
| Bengali cuisine is all about aroma and reticence |
| Two recent encounters with the food at Oh! Calcutta led me to return to Orwell’s famous essay, “The Decline of English Cooking”. Except there was no such essay. The piece I’d confused it with is a brief, lovely thing called “Decline of the English Mu... |
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| Evasive action |
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Sir — It seems that the government is somewhat hesitant to act sternly against those who execute yo ... |
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| Dubious games |
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Sir — The way players and sports authorities abroad are expressing dissatisfaction at the upcoming ... |
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| MANTLE OF A HINDU |
| Hindu spirituality, or what is perceived by that term, has had an allure for certain Westerners ever since William Jones and ...|
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Taking a very gloomy view of the future of the human race, let us suppose that it can only expect to survive for two thousand million years longer, a period about equal to the past age of the earth. Then, regarded as a being destined to live for three-score years and ten, humanity, although it has been born in a house seventy years old, is itself only three days old. — SIR JAMES JEANS
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