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| The oil crisis: a retrospect |
| Energy strategy should now be directed towards global warning |
| The Seventies saw two oil crises. In the first one of 1973, crude oil prices suddenly quadrupled. It threw most countries into a payments crisis. The oil exporters got too rich too quickly; they could not spend all the money. They gave much of it to ... |
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| Move over bard |
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Sir — Did William Shakespeare and G.B. Shaw ever imagine that they would have to face tough competi ... |
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| Blast from the past |
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Sir — However much the world may denounce the twin bombings in Iraq and Israel, the West will have ... |
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| Documentary value |
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Sir — The recommendations of the Human Development Report 2003 should be an eyeopener for ou ... |
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| DANGEROUS GAME |
| It is political expediency at its worst. The manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party transformed the United Democratic Fro...| Read.. |
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| IDENTIFYING PESTS |
| The Indian system thrives on confusion, luxuriating in the miasma that rises around every issue of public interest. It was po...| Read.. |
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| For greater vigilance |
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The public accounts committee report and allegations of the defence minister hiding the Central vigilance commission’s report... | Read.. |
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| No confidence |
| Weary, puffed up and old, the prime minister rose on his uncertain legs at close to midnight to reply to a two-day long debate full of sound and fury but, apparently, signifyi... |
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| Symbiotic alliances |
| Poor people’s livelihoods and food security often depend on ecosystem goods and services. Poor people tend to have insecure rights to environmental resources and inadequate a... |
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Time was when their plebiscite elected generals, heads of state, commanders of legions: but now they’ve pulled in their horns, there’s only two things that concern them: bread and games.
— JUVENAL
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