A suitable language?
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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Science with spirit
Scientists, in tune with the people, are using theirinfluence to move them towards a modernity that is all their own, writes Yash Pal My working life started a couple of years after independence. I...
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Enter the Second Republic?
Will India remain the world's largest democracy? Meghnad Desai describes the changes needed to ensure it holds the title. Forty-seven years ago, on January 26 1950, India became a sovereign...
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Imagining India
Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...
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Quantifiers of a land hard to measure
MAPPING AN EMPIRE:The Geographical Construction of British India 1765 - 1843. By Matthew H. Edney. University of Chicago Press, 458pp, Pounds .95. ISBN 0 226 18487 0. Throughout the centuries India...
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States of the nation
INDIAN DEVELOPMENT: Selected Regional perspectives. Edited by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Clarendon Press Oxford, 420pp, Pounds 40.00. ISBN 0 19 829204 X. Africanists rightly deride statements...
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His brilliant career
CHARLES CORREA. Charles Correa with an essay by Kenneth Frampton. Thames and Hudson 1pp, Pounds 40.00. ISBN 0 500 09268 0. One of the less well-known aspects of Prince Charles's famous "carbuncle"...
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Proconsuls who ruled the jewel
VICEROY: Curzon to Mountbatten. By Hugh Tinker. Oxford University Press, 266pp, Pounds 11.99. ISBN 0 19 577698 4. What Hugh Tinker calls "a kind of personal retrospect, completed when a lifetime of...
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To stick, scrap or juggle?
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake Ministers deciding the fate of the Oxbridge college fee are considering three main options. The...
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Blind lecturer a judge
A SENIOR law lecturer has overcome disability and discrimination to become the United Kingdom's second-ever blind judge. Amir A. Majid, 44, a reader in law at London Guildhall University, has been...
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The sleuth and the cinematic genius
THE FELUDA STORIES. By Satyajit Ray. Penguin, 868pp 500 Rupees. ISBN 0 670 87098 6. THE HOUSE OF DEATH AND OTHER FELUDA STORIES. By Satyajit Ray. Penguin, 339pp200 Rupees. ISBN 0 14 026803 0....
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Lawyers in for a field day
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake IF ANYTHING new is decided about college fees, it will present a legal minefield, education...
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Factfile
* Anglia Polytechnic University has 6,991 part-time students, with 16.8 per cent studying business and administrative studies * The University of Central England has 5,320 part-time students, with 30...
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Charge of the bright brigade
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake OXBRIDGE colleges have levied charges and fees for hundreds of years. This practice was...