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| Involved in mankind |
| Sympathy for Pakistan’s floods is a reminder of suffering at home |
| Several moving reports of Indians trying to help Pakistanis in their trial by water recall a meeting in Washington 60 years ago to consider India’s dire need for food. Among those present was Pakistan’s first ambassador to the United States of Americ... |
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| Free the mind |
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Sir — The brutal destruction of the World Trade Center towers has left a painful scar on American m ... |
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| Futile exercise |
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Sir — The United Progressive Alliance government is under compulsion to placate its allies. The lea ... |
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| Close contest |
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Sir — I usually find it difficult to take Mamata Banerjee’s pronouncements seriously. But, for once ... |
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| HUNTING GHOSTS |
| One of the world’s largest film archives was founded by a ghost hunter and psychic researcher, among others, who was as obse...|
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| Lost in the clutter |
| Effective advertising techniques using a spectrum of persuasive communication tools can lead to higher sales, among other things. The devices used to grab attention have to be... |
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| Falling short |
| Girish Karnad’s dramatic preoccupation with sexual triangles, whether folkloric or contemporary, finds popularity yet again in a current Bengali adaptation and a high-profile ... |
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| Rich carpet of emotions |
| It has to be said of Srinwanti Chakraborty, the art director of Srijati dance troupe, that she has considerable talent in composing dances. She successfully devised a vocabula... |
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She went her unremembering way,/ She went and left in me/ The pang of all the partings gone,/ And partings yet to be./ She left me marvelling why my sad soul/ Was sad that she was glad;/ At all the sadness in the sweet,/ The sweetness in the sad.— FRANCIS THOMPSON
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