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| Are the Bengalis touchy? |
| There were better ways to handle the PM than Buddhadeb found |
| When West Bengal’s chief minister blew his top on the bhaiya prime minister’s Calcutta speech — 24 hours too late — I thought wearily, “Ah! These Bengalis! So red-skinned — I mean, so thin-skinned! So excitable! So ineffective!” Worse, I was s... |
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| Planned confusion |
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Sir — Heaven help Calcuttans from the grand plans of the civic administration — the Metro Railway u ... |
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| Festive season |
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Sir — West Bengal has never been one to market itself, which is one of the reasons states with far ... |
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| A NEW ARCH |
| Foreign policy, like a river, flows in one direction. But rivers change courses or bend to change direction. There was a bend...| Read.. |
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| SHADOW BOXING |
| In a country as diverse as India, ethnic politics comes in handy to crafty leaders anxious to win popular support. Nothing st...| Read.. |
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| Beijing revisited |
| Now that China has become a right-wing dictatorship indistinguishable from Pinochet’s Chile, it was a pleasure to chat in Beijing with a Chinese academic whose idiom at least ... |
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| Help those who deserve it most |
| The heavily indebted poor countries initiative, launched in 1996 by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and endorsed by 180 governments, has two main objectives... |
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We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final stage of affluent misery — a crocus on a garbage heap.
— JOHN WILLIAM GARDNER
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