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| He looked the part |
| Belonging to multiple cultures can be both enriching and painful |
| Listening to Mordecai Cohen’s fluent Bengali brought to mind an old colleague, Eric Silver, who improved on Disraeli’s “All is race; there is no other truth” by postulating that how you look determines who you are. Cohen is a Baghdadi Jew from Rajsha... |
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| Deadly trade |
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Sir — The news of a farmer taking his life in Burdwan made for shocking reading (“In season of high ... |
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| Comic relief |
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Sir — Nayantara Mazumder (“All blows are for Romans”), Uddalak Mukherjee (“A drop of magic”), Anusu ... |
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| Real hero |
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Sir — Sachin Tendulkar should be congratulated for crossing the 15,000-run milestone in the history ... |
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| CHANGE IN REEL LIFE |
| Cynicism is West Bengal’s iron in the soul. Many people living in West Bengal have forgotten the meaning of the word, change....|
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| Lost and found in translation |
| When ageing is the interior journey of a profound sensibility through life, it yields not answers — for there can be none to the existential enigma — but a distilled clarity a... |
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| Simple tales |
| Indrashis Laharry has supplied two leading Bengali groups with new scripts. For Sayak’s Pinki Buli, he dramatized Amar Mitra’s story about the cultural and economic bar... |
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| A surreal vision |
| There is an unmistakably surreal quality about many of the photographs that make up Rameshwar Broota’s exhibition at the Aakriti Art Gallery (This End To The Other, til... |
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive.— LORD BYRON
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