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| Price of democracy |
| The Arab Spring may turn into a turbulent summer |
| The Arab Spring is sweeping away some of West Asia’s most egregious dictators. But political trends in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere suggest that the vacuum might be filled by forces that draw inspiration from the “Islam is the Solution” slogan... |
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| Unholy night |
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Sir — While roaming around in South Calcutta on Diwali night, I came across a pitiable sight near G ... |
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| Perfect reply |
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Sir — Team India ought to be congratulated for brushing aside England by 95 runs in the final one-d ... |
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| CLOSING THE MIND |
| Hatred and its companion, irrationality, both have a numbing after-effect. Thus the vice-chancellor and the academic council ...|
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| Fresh faces and the folk aesthetic |
| After the conceptual, financial and artistic fiasco of King Lear, the image of the newly-established Minerva Repertory Theatre took such a beating that it retreated int... |
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| Being clever |
| The young artist Rajesh Deb has made a name for himself for the giant woodcuts he has been creating for some time now. Another trait for which his works stand out is the look ... |
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| A disconnect that loses its urge |
| Saumi Nandy claims to “disconnect” from her surroundings, from society, and even from her “formal self” through her art. Her canvases, displayed in the exhibition, Image wi... |
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| Europe and the markets |
| The author is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Unive... |
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I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws. — S.J. PERELMAN
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