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| The Great Game again |
| China’s loss could be India’s gain |
| When the Darjeeling road was being laid, an old Tibetan remarked that the blasting could be heard in Lhasa. Similarly, there is little doubt that Wednesday’s mass chanting in Bodh Gaya to mark the start of the year-long celebrations for 900 years of ... |
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| Customer disservice |
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Sir — I had gone to watch a film at Menoka recently. After the show, I went to the washroom and dis ... |
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Sir — That domestic airlines have lowered their fares by 30-40 per cent on spot rates after the civ ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Bengal’s political leaders block public institutions like hospitals and Metro stations very o ... |
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| LITTLE MEN |
| It’s often the little men who make it big — or, some would say, need to make it big, adding (more unkindly), to feel good abo...|
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| Something to tell you |
| In my first few moments at Amritah Sen’s solo exhibition, Do You Still Happen? (Gandhara Art Gallery, till December 16), I found myself reacting to the work with a mixt... |
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| When love goes wrong |
| After a long gap of six years, Feroz Khan returned to Calcutta, with Moving Platform’s adaptation of Donald Margulies’s Pulitzer Prize-winner of 2000, Dinner with FriendsRead.. |
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| Spirited, controlled and imaginative |
| For somebody who did not go to art school, Uma Roychowdhury has pretty nimble fingers when it comes to modelling. Particularly the modelling of faces which she showed along wi... |
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| Woman of substance |
| I was down with a heavy cold: sneezing, watery eyes, running nose, sore throat and cough. Inwardly, I prayed that my worthy g... |
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This great College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.
— A.E. HOUSMAN
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