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| After Vajpayee’s visit |
| India should talk to Pakistan of its own will instead of under pressure |
| A crowd of 20,000 was drummed up for the prime minister in Srinagar where he delivered himself of a sermon which was, as usual, long on poetry and short on substance. He recited a line of indifferent verse which included a word which seemed to presag... |
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| Father of unkindness |
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Sir — Put the two pictures side by side. Ali, a 12-year-old Iraqi boy, who has lost both his arms a ... |
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| Battered and hurt |
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Sir — The government of Assam led by Tarun Gogoi appears to have adopted the old imperialist policy ... |
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| How to be loyal |
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Sir — It is appalling that the Union minister in charge of minority affairs, Sanjay Paswan, has pub ... |
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| POETRY AND HOPE |
| It remains to be seen if the recent visit of the prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to Kashmir will have a long-term im...| Read.. |
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| MEANER STREETS |
| The ancient relationship between sex workers and law-keepers could be entering a new phase in Calcutta. The visibility of fem...| Read.. |
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| As the threat perception rises |
| It may take some years to fully evaluate the effects of September 11, 2001 on privacy and civil liberties. Shortly after the events of that day, previous proposals were re-int... |
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| Surprise in a capsule |
| There was a little line framed by the Union finance minister in his budget speech this year. It was hidden in clause 6. The little insertion we are talking about is subclause ... |
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would...serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence and virtue. — SAMUEL SMILES
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