While its colour-charged cities throb with the crowds and chaos of emerging India, the treasures of the past hold pride of place in mind and spirit.

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These are mean times and Clint looks as mean as they come, a man who gets his way just by squinting and letting that vein in his forehead throb with barely concealed rage.

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Each season, Walt has made far less justifiable choices, each one changing him, with a throb of arrogance here, a swell of egotism there.

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