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| The hard business of life |
| Writer, teacher, woman, Christian, Tamil and Dalit |
| She looked like any ordinary Tamil woman in her neat and simple sari, her smooth, dark plait. But when she smiled, I knew there was something more to Faustina, better known as Bama, the writer. The smile was full-fledged, hopeful, and how prec... |
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| West knows least |
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Sir — Karan Johar was obviously feigning modesty when he said he had no idea why the Margaret Herri ... |
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| Domestic hero |
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Sir — K.P. Nayar contends that the Republicans in the United States of America are in retreat (“Bus ... |
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| One step forward |
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Sir — Instead of deciding to impose a ban on advertisements of tobacco-products, why did not the U ... |
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| YEAR OF PRIDE |
| This year is the year of the feel-good factor emanating from solid economic achievements. It sets the ground for early polls...| Read.. |
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| ‘Shark may get some teeth’ |
| An eminent politician and a former external affairs minister of India once summed up the SAARC negotiations by saying, in his inimitable Bengali accent, “Shark should get some... |
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| Season’s greetings |
| It was a gesture that warmed up an otherwise bleak winter. When Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf committed themselves to n... |
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Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenment — traps for eager and clever fools...every creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering. — GARY SHERMAN SNYDER
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