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| Learning from America |
| The most open society in the world |
| Few Indians are indifferent to the United States of America. Some dislike or detest that country. Others admire or worship it. Generally, these sentiments are held in toto — that is to say, either one is wholly for America, or one is wholly ag... |
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| Hero worship |
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Sir — The article, “Portrait of a govt in panic” (Jan 24), has exposed reality for what it is. Poli ... |
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| Ugly picture |
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Sir — The news report, “UK ‘poverty porn’ slur” (Jan 26), hardly comes as a shock. India was often ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Malvika Singh’s column, “Shut out from the nation” (Jan 26), ponders the question of what Rep ... |
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| TEST OF A DIFFERENT CLASS |
| The examination bogey is of highly respectable vintage. But funny tales, real and fictional, about the outlandish ways childr...|
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| Living, dying, dreaming |
| Severe, sharp and startling, Samir Aich’s latest exhibition at CIMA gallery brings together a body of work that is at once serene and scary. The tireless experimenter that Aic... |
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| Lost in time |
| Forty-nine years ago, Goa was ‘liberated’ by the Indian army. But for some residents of this former Portuguese colony — the Catholic community, for instance — freedom had come... |
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My failing to have a nice ear for vowel sounds, and the Anglo-Irish slurred, hurried way of speaking made me take the words ‘Ireland’ and ‘island’ to be synonymous. Thus, all other countries quite surrounded by water took (it appeared) their generic name from ours. — ELIZABETH BOWEN
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