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| Disunited Kingdom |
| Britain is reinventing itself |
| A Londoner complained recently that the day is coming when a passport would be needed to cross the road. We are familiar enough with secessionists but India is far less indulgent than what is rapidly becoming the Disunited Kingdom. No one here clamou... |
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| Night vision |
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Sir — The increase in crime in trains can be attributed to the railways doing away with the system ... |
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| Too old |
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Sir —There is no doubt that the three elder statesmen of Indian cricket — Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul D ... |
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| BAIL AS THE RULE |
| There is no greater unseemly sight in a democracy than that of an individual denied his personal liberty. This unpleasant phe...|
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| New light on Tagore |
| Back to Tagore, whose plays have never seen such an awakening of interest, not even in his centenary year. In fact, we can say for a certainty that Bengali audiences have not ... |
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| Forgotten puppets and merry trees |
| Raghunath Goswami died on January 19, 1995. Not too long ago, really. But as anyone who has seen his shows or been to his display of puppets at the Indian Museum from January ... |
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| The voyage to darkness |
| This is indeed Tagore untethered. Clearly, the youthful Arup Ratan of Jadavpur University’s department of English directed by Ananda Lal adopted inventions that would b... |
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| At the hour of twilight |
| I left Lahore at the end of the first week of August 1947. I was the last Sikh resident of an elite residential area along La... |
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I mean seeing the Elgin marbles this morning gave me the same feeling and I didn’t know, don’t know whether I’m in Rome or Paris. I mean the Louvre and the British Museum hold one together, keep one from going to bits.
— HILDA DOOLITTLE
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