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| Playing up the worst |
| As protest, Sushma Swaraj chose an ugly practice of Hinduism |
| “To the orthodox family of the medieval period a widow was ill-luck incarnate…Her presence brought contamination, the sound of her voice was a curse, her glance was poisonous, her very existence was perilous and brought ill-luck and woe to all her re... |
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Sir — Sixty is the retirement age for most salaried people, whereas one has to be 65 to benefit fro ... |
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| IN THE WINGS |
| The insidious danger about bad taste is that people get used to it. The people of India had become used to photographs of the...| Read.. |
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| SHOPPERS’ CITY |
| Every now and then, Calcuttans are given intimations of what the chief minister understands by urban development, particularl...| Read.. |
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| Selectors under the scanner |
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Abhijit Kale has been banned for seven months for “gross misconduct and indiscipline” although no direct proof was found of h... | Read.. |
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| Good to come together |
| Not being an economist, I have little to say on the economic platform of the communist parties of India. In any case, it does appear that common ground is being forged in the... |
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| Bearing the costs of pollution |
| Recognizing that this Convention and other international agreements in the field of trade and the environment are mutually supportive; reaffirming that states have, in accorda... |
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Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. They are always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used by a news-monger.
— WILLIAM COBBETT
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