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| Materialism in a time of high tariff barriers |
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When I think of my childhood in late middle age, I remember people less vividly than I remember things. I remember scented erasers made of opaque rubber topped with a strip of translucent green. Also a cheaper eraser enigmatically called Sandow. And soap. The history of middle-class India in the 1960s and 1970s can be written in soap and detergent. ... | Read..
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| Risk in a bottle |
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Sir — Bottled water is no longer safe. The Centre for Science and Environment tested two bottles ea ... |
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| Train trouble |
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Sir— It is not possible to judge from the details provided in the website of the Indian Railways (< ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Every day, I admire the huge statue of Rana Pratap Singh at the Central Avenue-Poddar Court c ... |
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In seven days’ time, the Indian Parliament will be celebrating an august anniversary. It will be completing 60 years of its e... | Read..
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O, well for the fisherman’s boy,/ That he shouts with his sister at play!/ O, well for the sailor lad,/ That he sings in his boat on the bay!/ And the stately ships go on/ To their haven under the hill;/ But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,/ And the sound of a voice that is still!/ Break, break, break/ At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!/ But the tender grace of a day that is dead/ Will never come back to me.
— ALFRED TENNYSON
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