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| Purity and danger |
| How Bengal refuses to confront an imminent water crisis |
| New Year’s Day brought flesh-and-blood confirmation of the late Nani A. Palkhivala’s outrageously politically incorrect claim that freed from India, an Indian can buy from a Scotsman, sell to a Jew and still make a profit. Not that the unassuming and... |
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Sir — We live on James Long Sarani in Behala, which is now the focal point of several development p ... |
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Sir — On December 28, I lost a rupee, because the ticket clerk at the Mayur Vihar 1 metro station d ... |
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| Greater care |
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Sir — It is unfortunate that a jobless father forcibly married off his own daughter to a man much o ... |
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| IMPORTANCE OF NAMING |
| A name is innocent, or that is what the common assumption is. But not so in India and, most certainly, not in West Bengal. He...|
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| Back to a laidback world |
| Lalu Prasad Shaw is known for his impeccably executed Bengali babus and bibis in tempera, often with a bizarre twist that distinguishes them from the run-of-the... |
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| The “state of exception” is a “state of emergency”, an extraordinary circumstance that was only meant to last a short while but has now become a “paradigm of government”. Gior... |
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| Evoking the magic of love |
| The charm of raga Madhuvanti lies in the expression of love. On November 22, at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Upendra Bhat created the perfect mood for this ra... |
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| Keeping tabs on the taboo |
| I have coined a slogan for our times: “Sex workers of the world arise.” You have nothing to lose but your shame. Men have bee... |
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The most beautiful sight in orbit... is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals which go out almost in a hemisphere... It’s really a spectacular sight.
— RUSSELL SCHWEIKART
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