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 | Amartya Sen The Argumentative Indian
Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length...... Read... |
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 | Henry Louis Vivien Derozio The Harp of India
Why hang'st thou lonely on you withered bough ? Unstrung for ever, must thou there remain ...... Read... |
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 | Toru Dutt
SONNET
A sea of foliage girdsour garden round,But not a sea of dull unvaried green, ..... Read... |
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 | Sarojini Naidu THE COROMANDEL FISHERS
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light, ..... Read... |
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 | Rabindranath Tagore
IN MY SKY AT TWILIGHT
In my sky at twilight you are like a cloudand your form and color are the way I .....
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 | Aurobindo Ghose INVITATION With wind and the weather beating round meUp to the hill and the moorland I go .... Read... |
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 | Two Lives – Vikram Seth
Both Henny and Shanti were born in 1908. The passage of the years from ... Read... |
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 | A Woman of Substance
My first vivid impression of Rashid Jahan (my eldest sister) and one that has withstood the passage of ...
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 | Behind Closed Doors
In retrospect it could be said that the New Women's Movement in India, as it has shaped ... Read... |
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 | Among the Chatterati
(The Diary of a Page Three Hack) This man is proof of the far-reaching power of page three. He is the uncouth,portly politician ... Read... |
