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| To
break the vicious circle | | It
might be a good idea to keep interest rates unchanged and see if demand is growing |
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cuts followed the Reserve Bank of India’s recent announcement of a reduction in
the bank rate. It seems that the RBI... | Read.. |
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| SLEIGHT
OF TONGUE | | There
is no such thing as an off-the-cuff remark in the cunning art of politics. Every
comment, even the apparently throwaway...| Read.. |
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YET DAWN | | The “new
dawn” that Ms Aung Sang Suu Kyi had seen for Myanmar last May, after her release
from house arrest, has long since b...| Read.. |
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| Science, which
cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts
its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for
it. — ALEXANDER IVANOVICH HERZEN | | |
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| FIRST
RUMBLINGS | | KRAKATOA
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 By Simon Winchester, HarperCollins,
$25.95... | Read.. |
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| STICK
TO THE BEATEN TRACK | | Take
a look at Sunday’s bestsellers’ lists or last week’s, or next week’s, and you’ll
easily conclude that mediocrity is the... | Read.. |
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