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| Shelter of the wrong kind |
| Much can be achieved if the focus shifts from populism to action |
| Calcutta’s smart new bus shelters would do London proud. I mention Britain’s capital not because of Mamata Banerjee’s fantasies but because it provides a yardstick of comparison. Our latest bus shelters are superior to the best in London. They may sp... |
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| No occasion for gloating |
| The author is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni... |
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| Big problem |
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Sir — I recently bought a T24 SIM card from Big Bazaar. Since then, I have been receiving countless ... |
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| Under attack |
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Sir — The assault on Prashant Bhushan by goons is very disturbing (“Prashant Bhushan attacked in co ... |
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| IN SEARCH OF SECULAR TIME |
| The measurement of time and its description have always appeared problematic and maybe for this reason the issue has always b...|
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| The sea has many voices |
| One large screen, four telephone sets, a few spiral-bound copies of a screenplay and some hundred A-4 size sheets displayed along two walls: this minimal inventory of objects ... |
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| Deity down the ages |
| The Mother Goddess from the ruins of Harappa (dating 3rd-2nd millennium BC) challenged Calcutta in its pre-pandal-hopping phase. Just a couple of inches tall, the unsop... |
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| Soft and subtle |
| Like every year, this year too Gurukul organized Nrityamela 2011 at Rabindra Sadan on September 24. Spearheaded by Sutapa Talukdar — a senior Odissi dancer and disciple... |
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For concentration you need a cat... And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give you back the self- command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence is enough.
— MURIEL SPARK
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