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| Cattle-class anguish |
| One has to travel abroad in order to experience India at its worst |
| The man sitting next to me in Bangkok airport’s departure lounge raised his arms over his head and remained with hands clasped in the air in yogic posture. A few inches from my nose, his armpit stank. No labourer on roads and bridges he, but a well-d... |
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| State of the beach |
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Sir — We visited the Mandarmoni seaside in East Midnapore two days after the news of the ban impose ... |
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| Hungry, yet ignored |
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Sir — The fact that the reports, “Millionaire count up 68% in 5 years” and “Death lends fistful of ... |
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| Clearing the air |
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Sir — We were shocked and surprised to read the Diary item, “No one listens to the colonel” (Aug 20 ... |
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| FOUND AND LOST |
| The gap between astronomy and astrology can be measured by the fact that while the underworld flourishes — presumably with th...|
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| Readers’ digest |
| There was a time in my younger days when the desire to show off one’s learning by reeling off titles of books and their autho... |
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A writer needs a desert island in the morning and the big city at night. As William Faulkner once declared, the perfect home for a writer is a brothel — because in the morning hours it’s always calm and in contrast at night there’s always a party atmosphere. — GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
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| Bad Hair Days |
| Is Darrell Hair an umpire who fights for fair play or is he just a big bad Aussie?... |
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