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| Three epiphanies |
| Of a land that lives in the past, present and future at the same time |
| Although I live in Bangalore, I am the most technologically challenged person on earth. I can — just about — change a light bulb, but I cannot operate an oven or microwave without burning or blowing something up ... |
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Sir — If Sachin Tendulkar does not get his hundredth hundred in the next few games, there is a poss ... |
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Sir — This refers to the article, “Taken for a ride” (Feb 23), by R.C. Acharya. High-speed corridor ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Suicides in Metro stations have become common in Calcutta. These incidents cause a lot of inc ... |
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| ADIEU MADEMOISELLE |
| Romance may feel bereft and nostalgia depleted, but Europe is determined to follow the route to political correctness...|
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| Fractured reality |
| A thought that is not unlikely to occur to a viewer at the Victoria Memorial Hall’s An exhibition of paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore (till March 15) is that not only... |
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| Inspired by local classics |
| For the first time, Budhan Theatre (Ahmedabad) came to town, courtesy the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. Led by the efforts of Dakxin Chhara... |
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| Turbulent dreams |
| People have compared her to the German Expressionists. She herself claims that she has been influenced by Tagore and Giacometti. Eleena Banik... |
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| Enjoy life till it lasts |
| I have known colder winters in Delhi than the one this year, but none as prolonged. There were many winters when the water in... |
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Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word.
— THOMAS CARLYLE
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