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| Fine art of jumping queues |
| That sense of a sympathetically human urban space is lost |
| Standing in a queue at a banquet in a five-star hotel recently, I had a minor revelation. The do was actually to celebrate the traditional South German Oktoberfest and, instead of hoi polloi you’d have found under one of those big tents in Mu... |
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| The fall guy |
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Sir — Recently, some television channels showed men dressed as Ravan dancing obscenely, consuming a ... |
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| Holy order |
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Sir — The canonization of Sister Alphonsa has indeed made Indian Christians proud (“Calling a saint ... |
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| Dial error |
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Sir — A couple of years ago, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited had boasted that its Internet Protocol Te ... |
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| SECURE IN DANGER |
| According to Calcutta’s women, it is easier to get home safe in the dark after work in their city than anywhere else in India...|
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It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves great change... The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.
— ANTHONY TROLLOPE
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