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| Quiet restfulness |
| How ‘going to the hills’ was visually immortalized |
| In the summer of 1857, Debendranath Tagore found himself almost trapped in Simla. There were rumours of Gurkhas on the rampage...and Meerut suddenly seemed quite near. In Swarachita Jiban-Charit, which deals at length with his Himalayan sojour... |
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| Laws of piety |
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Sir — The editorial, “Kali and the law” (Sept 17), rightly points out that Hinduism is more a matte ... |
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| TWIGGY’S GIRLS |
| The message must be clear — Twiggy is as bad for health as tobacco. If it is a public health responsibility to persuade young...|
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| Journey’s end |
| I am as eager to get out of Delhi as I am to return to it. This August, I was counting the days when I could escape from the ... |
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She [Margaret Thatcher] has been beastly to the Bank of England, has demanded that the BBC ‘set its house in order’ and tends to believe the worst of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.— JULIAN CRITCHLEY
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| The purist |
| Pope Benedict XVI is cast in a different mould — a steely one ... |
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