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| Not a gentleman’s game |
| It is difficult to imagine a more insecure party than the BJP |
| Indira Gandhi was a raging paranoiac. When the Congress high command made her prime minister after Shastri, they should have known better. But hope overcame reason. They thought they could co-opt her into the coterie, and run a government together. S... |
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| Crying rape |
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Sir — It is women like the South African delegate to the World Social Forum, in the news recently ... |
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| Messy parting |
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Sir — In politics there are no permanent friends or foes. That explains why the Nationalist Congres ... |
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| Save a life |
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Sir — Leukeran is prescribed by doctors for Leukaemia. But Leukeran 5mg was unavailable in Calcutta ... |
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| CALL FOR FUNDS |
| The abuse of power could often take novel and elusive forms. In West Bengal, ministers have been sending out, using their off...| Read.. |
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| JOB’S COMFORT |
| All elected governments live in fear of unemployment and the social unrest that is an inevitable function of an increasing nu...| Read.. |
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| Dirtiness
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remember M.K. Gandhi on the day of his martyrdom
would be to remember too what he so firmly
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| Danger on the
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| While male bisexuality cannot be understood simply as a response to men’s lack of access to women, it is likely that restrictions on contact between men and women in many sout... |
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| Lame duck waddling |
| The National Democratic Alliance government’s decision to open talks with the Hurriyat after sentencing itself to a premature death is a classic instance of far too little, fa... |
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
— BARRY COMMONER
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