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| Traditions old and new |
| A good school’s legacy is character |
| Lakdasa de Mel, the long-dead but fondly-remembered last Metropolitan of India, would have loved to hear Vijay Mallya trot out the names of school friends who had done well even if they hadn’t scaled his dizzy heights. “What has La Martiniere achieve... |
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| Lost beat |
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Sir — They come to the city every year before the Pujas. There was a time when Puja organizers woul ... |
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| Red salute |
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Sir— In “Building castles in the air” (Sept 10), Abhijit Bhattacharyya suggests that India should t ... |
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| PAST AND PRIVATE |
| Public life has perquisites, it also brings with it perils. The alliteration of ‘p’s is deliberate not for effect but to unde...|
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| Antique splendour |
| The exhibition, Treasures of Ancient China (till November 7), at the National Library, organized jointly by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China, Art ... |
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| These diseased times |
| Group theatre continues to probe the social impact of globalized ‘progress’, especially upon its own constituency, Calcutta’s Bengali middle class. Naye Natuya’s Jaal s... |
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| Covered in a film of sadness |
| Imagining urban or natural landscapes as vast, solitary spheres of existence is a favourite occupation among artists. What Varun Gupta attempts in his exhibition, In Search... |
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| The bonded slave of time |
| With advancing years, I have become more and more intolerant of unpunctuality. I refuse to see people who are late for their ... |
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Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit. — EVELYN WAUGH
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