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| When the academe becomes the grave of intellectual freedom |
| Over the past couple of weeks I found myself invited to speak at universities at two ends of the country: one in Gujarat, the other in West Bengal. Apart from the thematic interest of the seminars to which I was invited, I felt curious about the cond... |
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| Costly honour |
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Sir — One often sees political leaders being presented with thick garlands that probably cost a for ... |
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| Communication gap |
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Sir — It is sad that a couple of meritorious students from the All India Institute of Medical Scie ... |
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| OLD HAUNTS |
| For a while in the early Seventies, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian filmmaker, felt that his films had fallen into a rut. So...|
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.
— DOUGLAS ADAMS
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