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Uses of a sub-hero (256) |
| It must have been the late Fifties. Nirad C. Chaudhuri's lifelong passion was to bait his kinsmen, and he was at his sardonic best. The epitome of Bengali double wish-fulfilment, would be, h... |
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english ho (178) |
| The past, by definition, cannot be reopened and revised. But errors made in the past can be rectified so that their disastrous consequences are not carried over into the future. The Left Fro... |
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Quota Unquote (164) |
| The Vasundhara Raje Scindia government in Rajasthan does not even have enough of a rope to hang itself. The state is poised on the edge of another spell of violence of the kind it saw only m... |
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Faithful years (148) |
| India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen, Little,Brown, Rs 795 |
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over borders (117) |
| speculators, seeing what the country's central bank was doing, would start selling the currency, and it may depreciate far below the level favoured by the central bank. But a central bank do... |
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Put to the test (106) |
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Journeys of an outsider, from emptiness to plenitude (104) |
| Ways of Looking and Feeling By V.S. Naipaul, Picador, Rs 395 |
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City for all times (99) |
| DELHI THEN and NOW (Roli, Rs 2,475), with its split down the middle, follows the same pattern as the recently published India Then and Now, and is second in the series. But given the book's ... |
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Waiting for trouble (97) |
| The Darjeeling Hills are again tense. The winter carnival has been deferred and it may well be just a matter of time before the violent days of the Eighties return. And all for nothing. Ther... |
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What DiD The Trick? (92) |
| One cannot help imagining a more weird scenario. Following Sonia Gandhi's visit to China, Comrade Karat seems to have started to soften his position and his vitriolic attack against the prim... |
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