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| Tinker tailor singer star |
| How popular musical stardom is now manufactured in the US |
| Eight pm, Wednesday and Thursday nights, are sacred times in my house. These are the times reserved for watching American Idol. American Idol (for those of you who aren’t initiates) is a cult masquerading as an American reality show. I... |
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| Fire sermon |
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Sir — The fire inside Readymade Centre in Sodepur that killed 13 people came as a shock (“Shut in s ... |
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| Act together |
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Sir — In order to buy a Tatkal Sewa railway reservation ticket, I stood in queue at one of the coun ... |
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| RISING CONCERN |
| Going by the data of the last few weeks, headline inflation is not just rising, it is accelerating. Inflation worries are no ...|
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| TREAD SOFTLY |
| Does a gift remain a ‘gift’ if it is not freely given? The Supreme Court has ruled that a demand for gifts for a woman’s newb...|
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| A foul wind blows |
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The Myanmarese regime is not to blame for the powerful cyclone that struck the Irrawaddy delta and Yangon early this month, k... | Read.. |
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| Between trips and leaks |
| Some pictures which had acquired a sepia tint in the collective memory of West Bengal came back to us this summer. These pictures were of young boys and girls preparing for, a... |
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| City without the blinding lights |
| Strangely enough, my earliest memory of a power cut in Calcutta is associated not with darkness but with light: a tiny, lamp-like iridescence. I must have been around seven an... |
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I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here ‘in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse’. — H.H. MUNRO
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