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| What journalists must guard against |
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The butler in an Arthur Clarke novel who announces, “Three reporters m’lud and a gentleman from the [London] Times,” would not have approved of the Canadian barber’s son and former radio salesman who became Lord Thomson of Fleet upon buying Britain’s Top People’s paper. Neither would the medi... | Read..
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| Cheat funds |
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Sir — Chit funds are mushrooming all over the state, luring people with the promise of high returns ... |
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| Long wait |
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Sir — This refers to the article, “Waiting for sunrise” (Feb 6), by Dipankar Dasgupta. After the lo ... |
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| Money matters |
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Sir — Obtaining a passport online without the help of agents is not possible. Similarly, obtaining ... |
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Where do the noses go? If an awkward adolescent were to ask this question, he or she would be in excellent company. Ingrid Be... | Read..
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| Into something rich and strange |
| The title of Hajra Waheed’s inaugural solo exhibition in India, Sea Change, would remind viewers of Ariel’s song in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Ariel sings... |
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| Dear memory |
| Regular readers of this column know of my antipathy to the locally popular non-art called “dramatized readings”. A theatrician realizes that these form part of the theatrical ... |
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| Creating dreams with light and shadows |
| Wielding media as insubstantial as light and shadows for his striking “sculptures”, Patrick Rimoux required both the inventive imagination of an artist as well as the technica... |
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| At a loss for words |
| In the weekly syndicated column I write for The Hindustan Times, I had quoted some lines written by the last Mughal ... | Read.. |
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I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. — STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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