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An ancient brotherhood (07 November 04:46) |
| I was not aware that Sikhs had any historical connection with the Jains. Their religions have very little in common. Jainism is basically atheistic, with a rigid ethical code requiring respe... |
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The enigma of unfathomable forces (07 November 04:46) |
| Non-representational art, resistant to easy recall and reading as it is, hasn't quite become viewer-friendly and remains on the fringes of the art market. In public perception, it isn't eno... |
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A welcome change from the ordinary (07 November 04:46) |
| On October 31, the Calcutta School of Music presented Berenice Da Gama Rose and Neecia Majolly in a concert at the Sandré Hall. Majolly is well known for surprising her audience with an ast... |
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Beauty in another time (07 November 04:46) |
| Calcutta Painters is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a huge exhibition titled An exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures on the occasion of 45th anniversary 1964-2009 (November 3-15) co... |
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fearlessly gallic (07 November 04:46) |
| A short, plucky, and notoriously choleric Frenchman, who celebrates all things French and fiercely protects his country from foreign invaders. Who does that bring to mind? Napoleon Bonaparte... |
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The honest leftist (07 November 04:46) |
| In a recent lecture, delivered in Mumbai in memory of Nani Palkhivala, the home |
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Roads taken by human beings in the past (06 November 04:47) |
| Christopher Hill, who was the tutor and mentor of Keith Thomas at Balliol College, once remarked in private conversation, "Will there ever be another book like Religion and the Decline of Ma... |
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From chants to rock and roll (06 November 04:47) |
| Music is a difficult subject to write about. This book offers a narrative that covers a huge epoch ' beginning with the invention of musical notation more than a thousand years ago to the en... |
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Only blood and no power flowed from the barrels of those guns (06 November 04:47) |
| The road to world revolution, Lenin supposedly predicted, lay through Peking |
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Set and match (06 November 04:47) |
| No matter how alluring the orchids on the marriage pandal, the Swarovski crystals on the bridal lehenga, the star-studded sangeets or the mingling of foreign perfumes, the "arranged marriage... |
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Tiger Meets Dragon (06 November 04:47) |
| With China damming the Brahmaputra and holding India to ransom, it is time the Indian government got proactive with other governments, including that of the United States of America, to ensu... |
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Hard reality (06 November 04:47) |
| Even a Nobel laureate might end up feeling miserable, especially if he happens to be the president of the United States of America. What good is a peace prize given by a Swedish committee wh... |
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old form (06 November 04:47) |
| The government led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seems to have been seized with fatalism. Not only has it proven itself to be inefficient on most counts, but it is also refusing to make an effo... |
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Fated to fade away (06 November 04:47) |
| A faded group photograph one chances upon shows the faces of the earnest members of the first national executive committee of the Congress Socialist Party formed exactly 75 years ago, in 193... |
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An extraordinary Indian winter in London (05 November 04:47) |
| Clear skies, clean air, bright, crisp sunshine: London was at its crackling best while showcasing the past and present creativity, style and beauty of an erstwhile colony, India, today an en... |
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Happy Hunting grounds (05 November 04:47) |
| While discussing Left extremism in the country, one must keep in mind the differences between the Maoists of the post-liberalization era and the Naxals of the socialist India of the late 196... |
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tone deaf (05 November 04:47) |
| The national song of India has once again stirred up a hornets' nest ' without even being sung this time. At its 30th general session at Deoband, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind set out the refusal ... |
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courtly move (05 November 04:47) |
| It does good to see some of the seniormost judges in the country declaring their assets to the public. Even without the long struggle by activists and public crusaders for transparency of th... |
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From enclave to empire (05 November 04:47) |
| Bhaskar Duttas recent article on this page confirms the new trends in educational planning since Kapil Sibal took charge. Action on the education front is long overdue, but it should not p... |
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My Lord shes mad! (05 November 02:46) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (05 November 12:48) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 10:45) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 08:45) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 06:48) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 04:45) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 02:48) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 12:40) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 10:46) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 08:46) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 06:47) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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My Lord shes mad! (04 November 04:47) |
| When Lalit Kishore of Jabalpur filed for a divorce in a Madhya Pradesh family court on the ground that his wife Meeru was insane, he had thought that he would get the divorce quite easily. A... |
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Time for a new test (04 November 04:47) |
| Assembly elections have been announced for Jharkhand. The small state, now under Central rule, could have gone to the polls earlier last month along with Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal P... |
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Second coming (04 November 04:47) |
| Hamid Karzai has been returned as president of Afghanistan for a second time a little earlier than scheduled. It was the chance withdrawal of his competitor, Abdullah Abdullah, from the run-... |
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Greater space (04 November 04:47) |
| Not all suicides are the same. Society, while recoiling in fear and guilt from the personal suicide, has always honoured the killing of oneself for a greater principle ' in the case of warr... |
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An unpopular war (04 November 04:47) |
| The author is former foreign secretary of India sibalkanwal@gmail.com |
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WONDER YEARS (03 November 04:47) |
| Way back in 1962, travelling with my family from London, the train stopped for a while at a somewhat deserted station called Cambridge ' the land of Newton, Rutherford, Dirac and so many ico... |
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Into combat at full tilt (03 November 04:47) |
| The impression during the recent Conservative Party conference was that we were already in electioneering mode with the Conservatives barrelling into combat at full tilt. I can't say that I... |
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Keep the house in order (03 November 04:47) |
| The Bharatiya Janata Party continues to blot its book with public squabbles that do it no good, particularly after its virtual decimation at the hustings earlier this year. The Karnataka chi... |
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Going home (03 November 04:47) |
| Sri Lanka recently released more than 41,000 of the internally displaced persons from one of its relief camps in the north. The people were transported to their respective villages, which, a... |
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Black diamond (03 November 04:47) |
| Ever since the dawn of the modern era, it has been somewhat taken for granted that the natural resources of the earth are available for human exploitation. This conviction is of direct relev... |
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Walls between minds (03 November 04:47) |
| It is 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cataclysmic event that changed the face of Europe, and 50 years since I first went to Germany. I studied in Kiel in the early 1960s; the... |
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its getting too hot (03 November 02:46) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (03 November 12:46) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 10:47) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 08:47) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 06:50) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 05:17) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 03:18) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 01:20) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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its getting too hot (02 November 11:18) |
| The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it take... |
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