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| Travels to America |
| New thought initiatives are the US’s gift to the future |
| I first travelled to the United States of America as a student more than 45 years ago. The procedure, then, for obtaining a visa at the American consulate involved filling up numerous forms, producing chest X-ray photos from designated doctors and, f... |
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| The fallen hero |
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Sir — As a former football player and coach, P.K. Banerjee’s concern for the ailing Diego Maradona ... |
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| Minority report |
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Sir — The editorial, “Changing to govern” (April 25), is a little too optimistic in its assessment ... |
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| Waste end |
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Sir — After the Biomedical Waste Rules, 1998, was promulgated, the Calcutta Municipal Corporation h ... |
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| LEGAL RIGHT |
| Issues of citizenship have a history of inciting xenophobic sentiments in the North-east. The Election Commission’s decision ...| Read.. |
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| BEAR BACK |
| Spring is the time when bears come out of hibernation. But what bear cartels desperately try to do has been achieved by a few...| Read.. |
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| Dietary considerations |
| Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest percentage of undernourished, has shown little progress in reducing the prevalence of undernourishment in the last 30 years. In contr... |
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| A fractured polity |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee has made a last ditch appeal to the electorate not to vote for the “unprincipled” smaller parties. “Vote for us or vote for the Congress but do not vote f... |
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| In the fell clutch of circumstance,/
I have not winced nor cried aloud:/ Under the bludgeonings of chance/ My head
is bloody but unbowed. — WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY |
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