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foster-child of silence and slow time.” Then I began to notice how, in Skype’s messaging window, the handless little yellow pencil — whose job it is to indicate that a response was being typed at the other end — kept making neurotic writing motions and would, from time to time, give a deathly shudd... | Read..
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Sir — Many children in our country still work as labourers. We often hear stories similar to those ... |
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Sir — The news report, “From ha ha ha to ouch!” (June 30), is very interesting. The comment by Just ... |
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Sir — The authorities of a private kindergarten school in Nadia recently threatened to sack two you ... |
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a cricket victory or the price of chilli. It does not take great imagination to see why Mamata Banerjee succeeds as the grea... | Read..
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Seven months after 24 Pakistani soldiers died from firing by Nato forces on the border with Afghanistan, the United States of... | Read..
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| From Separate Worlds |
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Nothing’s changed in the last decade, it seems. An expat wives’ lunch this diarist went to after a long interval proved no di... | Read.. |
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