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| Dangers of the circus |
| Democracy does not feed on ignorance and credulity alone |
| Asked by Karan Thapar in a CNBC programme whether the Ramdev episode had damaged the government’s image, I had no hesitation in replying that it had damaged India’s image. Governments come and go, and no one is surprised when they stumble. But for a... |
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Sir — Amartya Sen’s advice that India should take a lesson from China on developing the quality of ... |
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Sir — In “Healthy lessons” (June 8), K.P. Nayar has dealt with two important aspects — health and e ... |
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| FROM ARTIST TO VICTIM |
| The need to mourn an artist’s death springs from the need to remember his special contribution to his country’s, even to the ...|
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| Rare glimpses of a remarkable mind |
| Long before Bhasha Bhavan was built, and National Library was unthinkable without the reading room that stretched from one end of the gracious old building to the other, exhib... |
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| The spirit of things |
| Bengali groups from outside Calcutta find it tough to exhibit their wares in the city, mainly on account of the costs involved, prohibitive for them. Luckily, a few of their m... |
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| Dreams and wisdom |
| The Rabindranath Tagore Centre of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Calcutta held a series of exhibitions on Tagore to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary (May ... |
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| Much more in store |
| MJ Akbar must be the most prolific journalist of our times. He heads the editorial board of India Today, edits The ... |
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Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this way and that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunk of costume jewelry.
— MARGARET LAURENCE
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