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| Sir Indravadan’s last war |
| I.G. Patel’s encounters with higher education |
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he had the brains to have become a great economist,
he chose the thankless task of serving that capricious
master, the government of India, and still managed
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| Weighing a problem |
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Sir — Anastasia Volochkova’s battle against the bulge-watchers, Bolshoi, must have set precedents i ... |
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Sir — The high point of the assembly elections is the realization of the Bharatiya Janata Party tha ... |
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| Badly projected |
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Sir — We are pained and perturbed at seeing the report, “PM road project chief shot” (Nov 28). Gamm ... |
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Stigma and discrimination: this was the theme
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| ALMOST FREE |
| Wonder ceases with familiarity. But any objective observer would be forced to grant that the massive scale of the electoral e...| Read.. |
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When the West Bengal municipal (amendment) bill, 2003, was passed in the assembly way back in July to legalize water taxes in... | Read.. |
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| Translating dreams into reality |
| We urge developed countries…to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product as official development assistance to developing countries an... |
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| The Eurasian imperative |
| While everyone in India has been obsessing with the state assembly elections, I have had a rather “European” fortnight, with a week in Germany and then a long encounter over a... |
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Why does one never hear the government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct. — JOHN UPDIKE
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