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| In praise of doggedness |
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One day last summer, I was sitting in the shade of an old fig tree and reading the last few pages of The Waves. It was just before lunch, and I was reading slowly so that the book did not end too soon. There were mountains all around me — jagged and rocky, with a thin covering of grass and st... | Read..
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| Famous lives |
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Sir — Lance Armstrong is famous as a seven-time Tour de France champion (“Man on a cycle”, Aug 26). ... |
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| Curtain call |
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Sir — A glorious chapter in Hindi cinema has come to an end with the death of the distinguished act ... |
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only a democratic form of government permits this. In India, what is noticeable at the moment is the complete absence of dia... | Read..
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Reflexes leave no space for thought. A sudden increase in preventable disease, for example, invariably sets off a cascading r... | Read..
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| Birds, Bees and Toys |
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Here’s a report from a local daily: a statue of two pigs has become the centre of internet gossip in Zhengzhou, the capital o... | Read.. |
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| Fifty shades lighter than grey |
| Critics and fans of the Hindi film industry — Indian cinema reportedly turns 100 this year — have often wrongly credited Shah Rukh Khan with pioneering the concept of the anti... |
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| That florid face |
| In the 1980 Hindi film, Dostana, a feisty Zeenat Aman grabs a smart alec who was teasing her by the scruff of his neck and drags him to a police station. Amitabh Bachch... |
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| Good, bad and phony |
| When a film industry grows a hundred years old, one wonders what kind of images it has sown into the minds of its audience. Pondering this makes me return to my own experience... |
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. — AMBROSE REDMOON
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