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| Maturing with alcohol |
| The absurdities of raising the legal drinking age abound |
| Here we go again. The population of India is supposed to be 1,210,193,422. Of this mass, maybe 5,000 MPs, legislators, politicians and bureaucratic rule-makers are adults and the rest of us, the remaining 1,210,188,422 are, well, children. ... |
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Sir — Unlike in other metropolitan cities, autorickshaws in Calcutta do not run on meters. If one c ... |
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| Tarnished gold |
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Sir — The report, “Ray’s fort crumbles” (Sept 12), did not surprise me. In the past, I have spent c ... |
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| Elusive change |
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Sir — The front-page headlines of The Telegraph and its Metro supplement of September 12 — “ ... |
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| FAST AND SHORT |
| Like in a revolution, there are no latecomers to apology. It is never too late to tender a sincere and heartfelt apology that...|
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace/ The naked nature and the living grace,/ With gold and jewels cover ev’ry part,/ And hide with ornaments their want of art./ True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,/ What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
— ALEXANDER POPE
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