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| Three cheers for Test cricket |
| Style, spaciousness and variety of technique |
| At close of play on the fourth day of the last Test of the recent India-Sri Lanka series, I rang up the legendary slow bowler, Bishan Singh Bedi. The match was intriguingly poised. India needed a little over 200 runs to win, and had seven wickets in ... |
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| Flop show |
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Sir — Swapan Dasgupta’s views on the Commonwealth Games cannot be dismissed (“Delusions of wealth”, ... |
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| Unsafe act |
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Sir — I would like to thank The Telegraph for publishing an interesting report on the proposed amen ... |
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| Poisoned stream |
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Sir — The high level of pollution in Kerala’s backwaters and lakes is the result of ill-planned far ... |
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| HOW DO YOU NOT DO? |
| There are all sorts of reasons for being mindful of cultural difference. When the first ships sailed out from the Old World t...|
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| When fantasies take on quirky forms |
| Studio 21’s monsoon show is, as the title states, quite a mix to meet different tastes (Monsoon Mix, till today). To begin with, there are Anand Prakash’s abstractions ... |
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| From terror to Tagore |
| British Council’s Inter-School Drama Festival, presented now by the Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London), took off like a rocket with over 40 entries in j... |
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| Uncovering layers of truth |
| A photograph often represents a half-truth. Images, at times, embody the ideas and opinions of the photographer rather than project the reality of the world that he tries to c... |
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| Diaries in a distant desert |
| In the epilogue to his 1987 autobiography, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, CBE, DSO, wrote: “I realise that my exciting and happy childhood in Abyssinia, far removed from direct contact... |
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The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in turn.
— R.D. LAING
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