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a mass of girders and struts painted a dark red just like the ArcelorMittal Orbit, but in every other way its opposite, being handsome, dramatic and useful. ... | Read..
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| Spare the child |
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Sir — ‘Spare the rod, spoil the child’ is an irrational, archaic and inhuman concept. The recent mo ... |
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| High office |
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Sir — The editorial, “Office on a hill” (June 17), states that the role of the president in the Ind ... |
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Sir — Ruchir Joshi’s funny article, “The panic room” (June 17), about the travails of purchasing an ... |
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It is time to end the drift in Darjeeling. The best way to do it is to restore the normal democratic process there. The annou... | Read..
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Plain speech may not be pleasant, but it has the virtue of dispersing cant. Sania Mirza’s sharp criticism of the All India Te... | Read..
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The Eurozone seems to have survived, at least for the time being. After keeping the world on tenterhooks for weeks, the Greek... | Read.. |
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| The beast has a new face |
| A report published a few days after the declaration of the results of this year’s Madhyamik examination in a leading newspaper caught my eye recently. It stated that of the 10... |
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| Beautiful mind |
| “Art is a guarantee of sanity,” Louise Bourgeois had said. I think of that statement every time my father or I take Ranu to see her psychiatrist early in the morning, about on... |
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I’d give all the wealth that years have piled,/ The slow result of life’s decay,/ To be once more a little child/ For one bright summer day.
— LEWIS CARROLL
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