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| A thousand Binayak Sens |
| Of those for whom New Delhi is too far away |
| Last week, the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen, the doctor and civil rights activist who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Raipur on the charge of sedition. Sen was charged with being a Naxalite sympathizer, and of actin... |
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| Fall from grace |
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Sir — The report, “Player thrown off UP train” (April 14), shows that India has lost both its consc ... |
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| Analysing maladies |
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Sir — The news that Siddhartha Mukherjee has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his much-acclaimed boo ... |
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| Best practices |
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Sir — The Metro Railway is the main link between north and south Calcutta. Yet every other day, a s ... |
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| SOUTH ASIAN LONG VIEW |
| The old opposition between the East and the West not only refuses to go away, but it also surfaces in the most unlikely of pl...|
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| Something approaching art |
| At a glance, the first solo exhibition of the Bangladeshi artist, Naeem Mohaiemen, in India, presented by Experimenter (till June 9), looks rather impressive. It has been moun... |
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| Warhorses from the West |
| Indianized revivals of commercial Anglo-American warhorses, two of them by Agatha Christie, dominated the Hindi- and English-language stage this month. Proscenium’s Ek Ajna... |
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| World in a grain of sand |
| Bireswar Sen was a typical product of 19th century Bengal, when progressive ideas born in the West encountered the wisdom of traditional learning, setting off the so-called Be... |
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| Often at too high a cost |
| Every time a high-profile abduction is carried out by insurgent groups to strike a deal with the administration, the entire n... |
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So Tom went home with Ellie... and he is now a great man of science... and knows everything about everything, except why a hen’s egg don’t turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things which no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. And all this from what he learnt when he was a water-baby, underneath the sea. — CHARLES KINGSLEY
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