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| Home away from home |
| A challenge to understand and address |
| Our dear friend Karuna — Maharajkumari Karuna Devi Mahtab of Burdwan — never forgave me for calling her, only half in jest, a Punjabi. “Five hundred years in Bengal and we’re still Punjabis!” she exploded. “And not even a word of Punjabi!” her brothe... |
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| Looking for change |
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Sir — Pakistan’s first woman — and its youngest ever — foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, is smar ... |
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| Blame game |
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Sir — Whether Suresh Kalmadi was appointed chairman of the Commonwealth Games organizing committee ... |
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| ONE TRIAL, MANY ERRORS |
| One trial and far too many errors — the balance of justice certainly looks wobbly as Hosni Mubarak, the fallen president of E...|
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| As clouds gather upon clouds |
| As the curtain lifted in Kalamandir at the stroke of 6.30 pm, the stage offered an expected spectacle. Men in white dhotis and kurtas, women in white saris Read.. |
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| A welter of emotions |
| Time was when cloth, clay, stone, metal, skin and palm fronds were what artists and writers worked with. Paper, which children graduate to after claiming walls and floors, was... |
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| Monsoon multimedia |
| Rabindrasangeet performances are dominated by various themes these days. Through different combinations, contexts and sensibilities, artists try to capture a new dimension of ... |
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| The men of miracles |
| I first met Sadia Dehlvi at an exhibition of calligraphy in Arabic and Urdu. She was sitting on a moorha at the centre... |
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There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets. — SAKI
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