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Dining at Oxbridge: “Formal”, please
I was a little anxious. It was only the second day of my life at the University of Cambridge, and I was already bombarded with instructions on how to dine.
March 17, 2018
Un-Romanticising the Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The
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Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?
“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).
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On Art and the Artiste –
Twenty years ago—back in 1997—I was a first-year undergraduate studying English literature at the University of Dhaka when
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