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| The family business |
| For Rajiv, Sanjay and Rahul, politics served as a comfortable safety net |
| The poet Dom Moraes has written of how, fresh from Oxford, he went to call on India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru liked young writers, and this one had come with good credentials; he was the son of one of India’s leading editors, an... |
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| Turn of tide |
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Sir — The Supreme Court’s order of a retrial of the Best Bakery case in a court under the jurisdict ... |
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| RETURN OF THE NATIVE |
| Mr Narendra Modi’s presence in UP as the BJP’s key campaigner suggests the return of religion and communalism on the party’...| Read.. |
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| Cast a spell on yourself |
| Last month, I raised the question why the Gayatri mantra was regarded as the most potent of all mantras. Professor V.N. Datta has sent ... |
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| The sociologists of knowledge
have been among those raising high the banner which reads: “We don’t know if what
we say is true, but it is at least significant.” The sociologists and psychologists
engaged in the study of public opinion and mass communications are often found
in the opposed camp of the empiricists...“We don’t know if what we say is particularly
significant, but at least it is true.” — ROBERT KING MERTON |
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| IT TAKES
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VILLAGE |
| If there is one plank that H.D. Deve Gowda has underscored, it is the plight of the farmer. Fortunately for him, it is the ru... |
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