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| Perils of a divided region |
| New forms of cooperation may help create a united South Asia |
| The Bengal Club and The Telegraph panel discussion held recently in Calcutta addressed the serious issue of South Asia. What if Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were to reunite to become United South Asia (USA)? The promise: No visa ... |
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| Slow death |
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Sir — The editorial, “Left behind” (Feb 3), is a perfect obituary for a state that should perhaps b ... |
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| CLIMBING DOWN |
| Popular movements often turn violent when their leaders lose the plot. That seems to be the case with the sudden eruption of ...|
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| DIFFICULT AGE |
| Like the famed ostrich, Indian institutions plunge their metaphoric heads into sand when faced with unpleasant truths. The go...|
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| Unequal Dealings |
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Truth may be unpalatable to some but not to most, one hopes. The truth is, two senior civil servants (they are colleagues and... | Read.. |
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| A strange and silent afterword |
| The man in the pictures has a sharp, angular face, long black hair and a beard. In one picture he has something strapped behind his shoulders. Dressed in a camouflage jacket, ... |
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| Secret vision |
| In his celebrated essay, “A small history of photography”, Walter Benjamin interpreted the art of photography as a kind of “optical unconscious”. By this he meant that photogr... |
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| Memento mori |
| Intriguing things are happening in the picture above. Three pairs of eyes form its central axis, cutting diagonally across the photograph. Two of them stare out of frames on t... |
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From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,/ And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,/ We’ll lead you to the stately tents of war.
— CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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