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| Through the lens, darkly |
| Husain’s death challenges all who felt diminished by his exile |
| Maqbool Fida Husain, the famous Indian painter and major cultural figure, has died at the age of 95 in a hospital in London. By almost any measure, M.F. Husain’s life makes a long and happy story. First of all, there is the classic rags to riches gra... |
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| Fantastic figures |
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Sir — According to the Institute of Economic Growth, inflation will drop to 7.93 per cent by the en ... |
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| Bad to worse |
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Sir — Vivekananda Park, which is a heritage landmark of sorts for south Calcuttans, needs urgent at ... |
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| THE NAME HAS A HISTORY |
| A name can be easily changed. But history cannot be altered. The past in that sense is definite and inert. The name, West Ben...|
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Slavery broke the world in half, it broke it in every way. It broke Europe. It made them into something else, it made them slave masters, it made them crazy. You can’t do that for hundreds of years and it not take a toll. They had to dehumanize, not just the slaves but themselves. — TONI MORRISON
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