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| A novice superpower |
| India now has a chance to recreate its past golden ages |
| In 1916, as the First World War raged around him and killed off a generation of young men, Oswald Spengler started writing his Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West). It took him 10 years to give final shape to the two-volume ... |
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| Terror returns |
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Sir — The recent bomb blast in Varanasi proved, yet again, that the Indian government is incapable ... |
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| BOLD MOVE |
| Everyone loves to talk about corruption in Indian public life but few would do anything to fight it. Politicians cry foul ove...|
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| BOOKS IN BUSINESS |
| Books and business, reading and rent, culture and commerce? The chief minister of West Bengal may cringe at such couplings, b...|
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| The healing game |
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Rumour has it that there is a very active and carefully calibrated tussle going on within the Congress to determine the succe... | Read.. |
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| Interior homelands in blood and steel |
| In Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, among the little stories about the history of the universe, there is one called “Blood, Sea” that makes me think of Anish Kapoor’s art. ... |
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms/ Inside your head, and people in them, acting./ People you know, yet can’t quite name.
— PHILIP LARKIN
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