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| Give some, take some |
| It is in India’s interest to be generous towards Bangladesh |
| Manmohan Singh’s warning about Bangladesh reflected Inder Kumar Gujral’s advice to Sheikh Hasina Wajed in the 1990s to not sell gas direct to India but via an American consortium. “Let them take their 10 per cent,” he said. “Otherwise, we’ll both be... |
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Sir — Masuma Yasmin’s story symbolizes the plight of poor Muslim students in India (“Medical high-s ... |
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| Hard times |
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Sir — Andhra Pradesh is on the boil again over the Telangana issue (“Land mark”, July 6). The agita ... |
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| Rough ride |
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Sir — I am a resident of Deshbandhu Nagar, Baguihati. On my way back home from work, I invariably f ... |
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| FLEET STREET FUNERAL |
| Investigative journalism trumped by investigative journalism: such could well read the epitaph to The News of the World....IRead.. |
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| Search for the missing wholeness |
| Simply translated, Navanritya is ‘new dance’. Therefore, a self-confessed practitioner of this idiom is, almost by definition, committed to a certain freshness of form, if not... |
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| Heroines again |
| Prominent women performers of pre-Independence Calcutta, and their inhuman exploitation by men, have always attracted Bengali dramatists as subject matter. In that lineage arr... |
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Man’s and woman’s bodies lay without souls/ Dully gaping, foolishly staring, inert/ On the flowers of Eden./ God pondered./ The problem was so great, it dragged him asleep./ Crow laughed./ He bit the Worm, God’s only son,/ Into two writhing halves.
— TED HUGHES
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