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| The Western press noticing Modi is grist to the propaganda mill |
| The outcome of the feverish campaign (“Let’s make our Nation’s pride win!”) by Narendra Modi’s supporters to vote “him the most influential person on the TIME list!” won’t be known till next Tuesday. But since whatever national appeal he claim... |
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| Left out |
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Sir — It is a pity that eunuchs continue to remain outside the ambit of mainstream society. Governm ... |
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Sir — The chief minister’s announcement that imams will receive a stipend has sown seeds of ... |
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| WISDOM IN THE CUPS |
| “I wish I could drink like a lady,” Dorothy Parker laments in one of her immortal little poems, “I can take one or two at th...|
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| Scarlet is the colour of a smile |
| One of my friends from university could distinguish poems written by women from those by men just by paying attention to the choice of words. His ability was put repeatedly to... |
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| Daring and ambitious |
| Nobody in Calcutta — probably even in India — has dared to stage Stephen Sondheim so far. No wonder, for this doyen of the American musical, who changed the whole approach to ... |
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| Different melodies |
| Chinton presented a melodious evening — A Rendezvous with a Raaga — at the G.D. Birla Sabhagar on March 31. The programme, as the name suggests, explored the various mo... |
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| Life begins at ninety |
| Smitha Verma of The Telegraph, Calcutta, called on me to discuss a fascinating project. She was planning to write a ... |
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Playing a pipe with silvery squeaks,/ Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeks,/ And because by night he could not see,/ He gathered the bark of the Twangum Tree/ On the flowery plain that grows./ And he wove him a wondrous Nose,—/ A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
— EDWARD LEAR
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