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| Degrading democracy |
| India must first restore and renew the dignity of Parliament |
| When Anna Hazare went on a fast at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan this past August, excitable television anchors announced that we were witnessing India’s Tahrir Square. They were wrong. The Indian equivalent of the protests in Egypt (and elsewhere in the Ar... |
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| True spirit |
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Sir — The game between India and the West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium was a perfect advertisemen ... |
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| Netherworld |
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Sir — The flyover in Gariahat is one of the many places where one can see what the ‘other’ India lo ... |
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| Travel green |
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Sir — ‘Eco tourism’, also known as ecological tourism, is a form of tourism that appeals to ecologi ... |
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| YES, IT ACTS |
| The chasm that divides action and inaction haunts any government. For many months, the government of Manmohan Singh has been ...|
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| Throwing new light on stage |
| Airtel’s Lifestage festival, surviving into its second year while other sponsors cut their theatre budgets, achieved the rare feat of delivering something new in such festival... |
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| The guardian deity |
| The Indian Museum, which is all set to celebrate its 200th anniversary, has a prodigious collection, most of which is not visible. Even the spectacular gateway and railings fr... |
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| Grandeur and melody |
| Ustad Amir Khan. On November 20, it was proved in G.D. Birla Sabhaghar that this name has not been lost in the crowd of centenaries and sesquicentenaries of various luminaries... |
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| Vanity books on sale |
| I am dismayed to learn that some of the leading publishing houses, including Penguin-Viking with which I have been associated... |
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He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honour and pity and compassion and sacrifice.
— WILLIAM FAULKNER
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