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| Partition and its many futures |
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September 28 this year marks the 100th birth anniversary of my grandfather. My maternal grandfather — Sardar Sher Singh (1912-1994) — was not a famous man, not known to many people outside the circle of his family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours, but in this small group he was universally liked. For my part, like his five other grandchildren, I adored him.... | Read.. |
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| Fast and furious |
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Sir — Bhaswati Chakravorty’s article, “A taste for violence” (Sept 6), was timely and perceptive. T ... |
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The ‘appetite’ to win is not something that India has been known for in sports. This appetite is another name for will power,... | Read..
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Back injuries are much more than a health problem in China now. The illness has acquired the status of a State secret ever si... | Read..
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| For the nation |
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Can there ever be a meeting point between Hong Kongers and mainland Chinese? Not if the high-pitched campaign against the int... | Read.. |
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| The dark side of white light |
| Before going to sleep, I usually read a book in the white light of a CFL bulb placed on the wall behind the bed. Later, after I have shut my eyes, and in the moments between w... |
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| What is it like to be a bat? |
| I am writing from the wilder margins of Delhi, where I am staying in one of those stillborn hotels with two-dimensional swimming pools and listless waiters with nothing to do.... |
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| Shapes and shades |
| The lighting of the lamps had a kind of magic to it. Nowadays that time evokes nostalgia, and maybe a sense of the enormous inconvenience of inadequate light. But fiction and ... |
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. — MARK TWAIN
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