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I’m visiting the city of the real Didi. If I close my eyes and turn down the soundtrack, the pre-monsoon heat feels exactly like in Calcutta. When I go to the riverside and walk on a jetty I could be at Ganga’r dhar, the rusting hulks of old steamers and barges could be at Babu Ghat, t... | Read..
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Sir — It should be a matter of concern that superstition, coupled with religious intolerance, is on ... |
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| Futile clash |
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Sir — It is unfortunate that the writer-activist, Mahasweta Devi, has resigned as the president of ... |
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| Horror trip |
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Sir — I have been frequently travelling to the New Jalpaiguri station to visit North Bengal and Sik ... |
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the rulers of the country decided to bring it out of its insularity. Myanmar has opened itself up to the world and, more emp... | Read..
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The will to centralize can be addictive. Kapil Sibal has been on a high, blazing the national higher education firmament with... | Read..
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The topper of the civil services main examination, 2011, is Shena Aggarwal. This year’s IIT-JEE topper is Arpit Agrawal. Both... | Read.. |
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| Rumblings from the barracks |
| The focus today remains on the official statement issued by the army pertaining to the ‘incident’ — a scuffle between officers and jawans — during a military exercise ... |
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| Speaking in 1968, the British politician, Enoch Powell, quoted a constituent as having said to him: “In this country, in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip ... |
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring — MARILYN MONROE
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