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| Merchant the man |
| One of the most distinctive cricketers to have played for India |
| Vijay Merchant, whose birth centenary was (desultorily) observed last month, was the founder of one of the two Great Traditions of Indian cricket, the Bombay School of Batsmanship (spin bowling being the other). A correct and orthodox player, equally... |
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| Diplomatic decision |
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Sir — “Rockstar? Dance to India’s China tunes” (Nov 9) makes it apparent that our foreign office ha ... |
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| Ground realities |
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Sir — The report, “Singh holds out hope for Kingfisher” (Nov 13), is shocking (although the civil a ... |
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| MEDIA MUFFLING |
| It is odd that the media in India has become a favourite whipping boy of the judiciary. Two examples will corroborate this p...|
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| Seeking redemption in faith |
| From realistic portraits of public figures to geometric cityscapes; from owls and crows of a distinctive character to deadened crowds robbed of all individuality; from mauled ... |
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| Holy terror and a romantic comedy |
| Finally, a city group has realized the applicability of Ionesco’s absurdist classic, Rhinoceros, to our land and times. Though The Red Curtain staged it in English seve... |
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| The sardars of Australia |
| I was aware of the existence of Sikh settlements in Woolgoolga in North Australia. They were farmers growing avocados and ban... |
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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvelous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby... he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals — T.H. HUXLEY
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