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| Two cheers for fifty-fifty |
| Of Abu Abraham and real cricket |
| On February 26, I attended the opening of an exhibition of cartoons by Abu Abraham, a brilliant, brooding Malayali who worked for many years in London and New Delhi before retiring to Kerala. Ranging over 50 years of Abu’s work, the show had as its c... |
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| Narrow outlook |
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Sir — I wonder what kind of a liberated soul is the sankaracharya of Kanchi. People like Swa ... |
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| Truth hurts |
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Sir — The number of heinous attacks on RTI activists has increased alarmingly. Some activists have ... |
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| Hunger pangs |
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Sir — I returned by Chennai Mail from Berhampur in Orissa after having visited Gopalpur-on-Sea and ... |
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| STILL A KING OF THE EXILED |
| It is not easy to predict how the exit of a leader may change the course of a popular movement. But the 14th Dalai Lama has n...|
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| Solitary shadows |
| Studio 21 is currently showing two young artists, Amrita Bagchi and Priyanka Majumdar, who are part of a collective called Asthir. The exhibition, Art on the Move... |
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| Young and talented |
| Children’s theatre in Bengali continues to flourish. Nandikar has two one-acts, Kanu and Tomar Nam, written and directed by Swatilekha Sengupta, who has also com... |
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| Faithfully boring |
| Sujata Chakraborty’s Neera on Canvas (February 24 to March 2) fell imaginatively well short of Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Neera. All Chakraborty has done is to copy — word b... |
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| Life’s balance sheet |
| It is past 10 am. I have gone through the contents of the six newspapers I subscribe to and mentally gone over what I have ... |
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm, delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure and the glory of everything.
— E.B. WHITE
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