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| A life in bungalows |
| Close encounters of the colonial kind |
| When the British came to India, working and living in an alien climate meant the need for appropriate spaces. As much of their work involved interacting with ‘natives’ in villages and rural areas, life under canvas for weeks on end became the norm fo... |
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| Due respect |
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Sir — Calcutta is the cultural capital of India. It is part of Indian culture to treat women, senio ... |
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Sir — I was born and brought up in Darjeeling, and have often felt earthquake tremors there. Darjee ... |
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| FAIR AND UNLOVELY |
| “Bold and Flirty”, says the advertisement for a multinational company’s ‘Audacious Amazon’ look. Its Colors Take Flight colle...|
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She had too much so with a smile you/ Took some./ Of everything she had you had/ Absolutely nothing, so you took some./ At first, just a little./ Still she had so much she made you feel/ Your vacuum, which nature abhorred,/ So you took your fill, for nature’s sake./ Because her great luck made you feel unlucky/ You had redressed the balance, which meant/ Now you had some too, for yourself./ As seemed only fair. Still her ambition/ Claimed the natural right to screw you up/ Like a crossed out page, lossed into a basket./ Somebody, on behalf of the gods,/ Had to correct that hubris./ A little touch of hatred steadied the nerves.
— TED HUGHES
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