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Uses of a sub-hero (20 December 10:05) |
| 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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Quota Unquote (20 December 10:05) |
| 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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english ho (20 December 10:05) |
| 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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Waiting for trouble (20 December 10:05) |
| 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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City for all times (20 December 10:05) |
| 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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Journeys of an outsider, from emptiness to plenitude (20 December 10:05) |
| Ways of Looking and Feeling By V.S. Naipaul, Picador, Rs 395 |
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Put to the test (19 December 10:57) |
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joint care (19 December 10:57) |
| The forthcoming joint military exercise between India and China is further evidence of the growing maturity in ties between the two countries. While there are still points of conflict, the r... |
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Safe ANd Secure (19 December 10:57) |
| Doctors are a protected species under the orders of the Andhra Pradesh government. In response to a prolonged agitation at a prominent paediatric care centre in Hyderabad, the state governme... |
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Caught in the Deep ENd (19 December 10:57) |
| Media reports and reactions from the army suggest that Russia is delaying work on the aircraft carrier Gorshkov, thereby causing much trouble to the Indian navy, which is in dire need of the... |
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Under the sign of six (19 December 10:57) |
| Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would like to believe that the Sixth Schedule status is a panacea for all existing problems in the Darjeeling Hills. His desperation to get the Constitutional Amendme... |
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Freedom in a stretch of land (19 December 10:57) |
| Ever since Subash Ghisingh raked up the Sixth Schedule in 2005, almost every community among the Gorkhas ' from the Brahmins to the Newars (the trading class) ' is running from pillar to pos... |
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Shadow of trouble (18 December 10:43) |
| The author is professor of economics, University of Warwick |
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Hope Wins (18 December 10:43) |
| It may not be wrong to call it a case of fortune favouring the brave. A fresh rush of investment proposals for Bengal is clearly a measure of the investors' confidence in Buddhadeb Bhattacha... |
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A pawn moved (18 December 10:43) |
| The play of politics has often been compared to the game of chess. The similarities are more apparent than real. This was brought home to roost when the chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, an... |
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Learn to be patient (18 December 10:43) |
| Do not be downhearted about the outcome of the Bali talks. They did not deliver the binding commitments to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that are desperately needed, and as a result milli... |
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Has planning any use? (17 December 11:05) |
| With the new affluence, the style of official architecture in Delhi is changing; new commissions are building palaces. But in the days of socialist austerity, government buildings were desig... |
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Measured Steps (17 December 11:05) |
| The Pakistan president is true to his word. By lifting the emergency, and that too a day before the scheduled hour, Pervez Musharraf has stuck to the two-point programme he had publicly set ... |
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fair deal (17 December 11:05) |
| What is so seductive about the book fair in Calcutta? The passions it excited in artistic and intellectual minds ' and business brains ' when the court directed that its venue should be move... |
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A time to make way for youth (17 December 11:05) |
| And the many exit polls say different things each time, thereby making the exercise rather dull and boring, even predictable. Far more substantive is the reporting from the election trails. ... |
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Death by passion (17 December 11:05) |
| The author is reader in political science, Delhi University |
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To cut the long arm short (17 December 11:05) |
| When the Supreme Court bench comprising A.K. Mathur and Markendey Katju observed recently that the judiciary sometimes crosses the thin yet important line separating it from the other two br... |
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Inadequate state (16 December 07:06) |
| The India story hinges on its being a liberal democracy. We must recognize the flaws in the story and correct them. We claim to want uplift of the poor and vulnerable, while providing opport... |
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over borders (16 December 07:06) |
| 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 d... |
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old trouble (16 December 07:06) |
| It is not clear which rebel group was behind last week's bomb explosion in the Rajdhani Express in Assam. One tribal outfit's claim that it was responsible for the blast may be more of a pub... |
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Penguins to the Rescue (16 December 07:06) |
| The Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, is famous for its penguins, and now for the Kirchners. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently succeeded her husband, Nestor, as the first ... |
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An impossible silence (15 December 08:10) |
| The author's most recent book is On Ugliness. He is also author of the international bestsellers, Baudolino, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and Turning Back the Clock, among othe... |
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warmer Climes (15 December 08:10) |
| Tears, jeers, derisive conga-style dancing, emotional appeals, sleepless nights, all made up the highly dramatic fortnight of climate talks in Bali. But the keenest point of the drama came w... |
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Tale of two nations (14 December 08:10) |
| Singapore?s Lee Kuan Yew wonders why ?India?s peaceful rise hasn?t led to unease over the country?s future? whereas ?China?s peaceful rise (has) raised apprehensions?. |
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Absent Spirit (14 December 08:10) |
| What is the protocol of death? When Ganga Devi, the widow of Nanak Chand, the assistant sub-inspector killed in the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, burst through security to confron... |
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Geometric beauty (14 December 08:10) |
| Ganesh Haloi is a prolific writer of verse. These poems, some of which hark back nostalgically to the idyllic life of his childhood in Jamalpur, now in Bangladesh, throw light on the ideas b... |
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Bringing in the Yuletide spirit (14 December 08:10) |
| It is a well known fact that the voices of the people from the northeastern states are singularly versatile in their musicality. Perhaps it is the pure mountain air and the walks up the slop... |
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Bit of a let down (14 December 08:10) |
| Bohurupee, Little Theatre Group ' which metamorphosed into People's Little Theatre, and Shouvanik. In the vastly mutable world of theatre, to last so long is no mean achievement. But what s... |
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Scenes from a turbulent past (14 December 08:10) |
| The Anti-Sikh Pogrom of 1984 landed on my table, I put aside other work and got down to reading it. The author has impressive scholarly credentials: she has a doctorate in history from an A... |
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Larger than life (13 December 09:44) |
| media over-interest. The state headquarters of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Khanpur, Ahmedabad, has been inundated with requests from countless media organizations demanding "exclusive" in... |
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Adults only (13 December 09:44) |
| Growing up is not always a matter of age. It is also about shedding certain attitudes and acquiring some others. By this criterion, Narendra Modi is yet to grow up. One of the characteristic... |
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Red letter days (13 December 09:44) |
| Recovering English from two decades of oblivion is quite a challenge. The government of West Bengal is beginning to think along sensible lines ' a little after the decision to reintroduce En... |
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Take pride in the party (13 December 09:44) |
| To think that we are being forced to hold our breath and wait till December 23 to know what the people of Gujarat have determined for themselves is grossly unfair. The wait would surely put ... |
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Faithful years (13 December 09:44) |
| India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen, Little,Brown, Rs 795 |
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Innocent pleasures and ugly experiences (13 December 09:44) |
| THE UGLINESS OF THE INDIAN MALE AND OTHER PROPOSITIONS By Mukul Kesavan, Black Kite, Rs 395 |
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On a wistful note (13 December 09:44) |
| The Unmaking of a Nation (1905-1971) By Nitish SenGupta, Viking, Rs 495 |
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Flashback to the future (12 December 08:36) |
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old gift (12 December 08:36) |
| An obvious choice is inevitably devoid of any controversy. The announcement that Mr L.K. Advani will be the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate has not caused any eyebrows t... |
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Fire within (12 December 08:36) |
| It is a chilling portrait of the troubled teenager as a killer. Other societies have been haunted by the image earlier. Recent campus shoot-outs in the United States of America were ugly rem... |
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Shimmer and shine (12 December 08:36) |
| Hong Kong is passé; Macau is the new destination for moneybags in China. Its casinos, always its star attraction, were one of the reasons it was given the same status as Hong Kong ' that of... |
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Costly stumble along a poll terrain (12 December 08:36) |
| The author teaches history at the University of Delhi |
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A social concern (11 December 10:33) |
| The external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee, is not an easy man to be pushed over. But the Tamils in Malaysia have achieved just that, aided by the short-sighted chauvinism of the Dravid... |
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act less (11 December 10:33) |
| Once order is upset, even mildly, returning to normalcy requires some more upsets. So when the court itself questions the court's propriety in taking on more than is within its prescribed pu... |
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Crying Foul (11 December 10:33) |
| What the politicians make of electoral democracy may be a far cry from what the people want it to be. Elections to panchayats are meant to be the closest thing that India has to direct democ... |
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Nothing Unusual (11 December 10:33) |
| Readers of The Telegraph are not the only people lucky or unlucky enough to be offered my thoughts. Get on the internet and ' here comes the puff ' seek out www.moreintelligentlife. com and ... |
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