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| A true public intellectual |
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Last week, the novelist, essayist, and polemicist, U.R. Ananthamurthy turned 80. His Bangalore home is named “Suragi”, after a flower that retains its fragrance even after it has aged and dried up. Some might find the name self-regarding; but then Ananthamurthy is a man with much to be immodest about. His novels, Samskara and Bharathipura,... | Read.. |
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| Danger zone |
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Sir — Sabujdwip, an island at the confluence of the Behula and Hooghly rivers under the Balagarh bl ... |
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| Written in gold |
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Sir — Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from one day international cricket recently (“One s ... |
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It is good to know that the president’s son has been a student. That means India has at least one (of course, there must be m... | Read..
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| The state of the art in world theatre |
| Suddenly, and quite pleasantly, Calcutta seems to have lit up on the international touring map, hosting three foreign productions or collaborations in one week — not counting ... |
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| The melody hunter |
| The Harrington Street Arts Centre recently presented a collection of Raghu Rai’s photographs of some of India’s iconic musicians (India’s Great Masters, ended on Dec 2... |
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| Spiritless beauty |
| A variety of terms have emerged to define an experimental production. There are various forms of dance, such as classical and semi-classical dance, as well as folk and contemp... |
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| Time to build new bridges |
| In a dramatic reversal of fortunes, the Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the Japanese parliamentary electi... |
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I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. — NEIL GAIMAN
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