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| Strange fruit |
| Icons live on between the transcendent and the vulgar |
| On Sunday morning, with nothing much to do, I decided to go to the Academy of Fine Arts and watch Bratya Basu’s dramatized version of Tagore’s Chaturanga. I had been warned by friends that it was a terrible production. But exactly contemporary... |
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| The boomerang effect |
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Sir — Now that the country’s highest court has unequivocally quashed the amended AIIMS Act and rein ... |
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| Height and distance |
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Sir — The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s rally at the Indira Gandhi Maidan in Siliguri has proved, contra ... |
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| LOCAL RULES |
| There is a persistent confusion in the Indian political process among locality, province and nation. It is this confusion tha...|
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| SEIZE THE DAY |
| Between the Pokhran blasts, conducted ten years ago, and the present, the world has seen major ups and downs. The United Stat...|
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| Make way for change |
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Delhi is dangerous to live in, to work in, to honestly and professionally operate in any manner, shape or form. Crime and cor... | Read.. |
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| The play’s the thing |
| Nandigram went to polls on Sunday, with one-and-a-half years of violence behind it. I was there last Friday, speaking to residents and trying to gauge the mood of these ‘sensi... |
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| A clear message from Singur |
| After an hour’s drive along Delhi Road, I saw the first signs appear near Chinsurah. Party flags — mostly red and green-and-white — hung from electricity poles. The names of c... |
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!/ How I wonder what you’re at!/ Up above the world you fly!/ Like a teatray in the sky.
— LEWIS CARROLL
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