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| Globalized provincials |
| Globalization has not broadened the subcontinental mind |
| Some weeks ago, a Calcutta soccer team flew to Jakarta to participate in an inter-Asia football tournament. The competing teams, mostly of an indifferent calibre, were from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; none of these countries had even made the q... |
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| Talk, don’t rant |
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Sir — The “special meeting” of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s minorities’ cell was a very special one ... |
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| A touch unfair |
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Sir — Ashok V. Desai raises a pertinent question — “Are the Bengalis touchy” (Sept 9)? To be fair, ... |
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| Heritage house |
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Sir — Bishop’s House is a listed heritage building. The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has even put ... |
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| WINNING THE PEACE |
| It is bad politics and worse official policy to destroy a hard-won peace for partisan gains. Bangladesh’s prime minister, Ms ...| Read.. |
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| REVISE UPWARDS |
| The United Nations conference on trade and development has recently published the World Investment Report for 2003. Th...| Read.. |
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| Crime and the country |
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It is impossible to deny the threat to national security from organized crime such as smuggling of arms, drug-trafficking and... | Read.. |
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There are three roads to ruin — women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. — GEORGES POMPIDOU
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