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| Kingmaker and king |
| Dual centres of power are unprecedented for India and the Congress |
| Emerging reality invariably does not fit into the straitjacket of the past. The Congress-led coalition of Manmohan Singh is an unprecedented event in the history of the Congress as well as of India. There is no clear framework from the past in which ... |
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| The wiser half |
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Sir — Who would make a better finance minister than Manmohan Singh? His wife, Gursharan Kaur, of co ... |
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| OUT OF TUNE |
| After the drama comes the return
to reality. The abdication of Ms Sonia Gandhi and the subsequent elevation of
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| THE RITUAL GOES ON |
| This was not the best time to announce the Reserve Bank of India’s annual policy. A new government was not in place. Overall...| Read.. |
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| Not
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The Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) decision to stay out of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government shou... | Read.. |
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| An epitaph for future reference |
| These elections were probably the
last that Atal Bihari Vajpayee will fight and there is little chance that he will
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned... A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better
company. — SAMUEL JOHNSON
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