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| Race to the bottom |
| Why has India made such an abysmal failure of its higher education? |
| It is perhaps paradoxical that a country like ours with its ancient brahmanical tradition of reverence for learning should have made such an abysmal failure of its higher education. Teachers who never teach (which may even be all for the best), leaka... |
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| As they like it |
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| Little hope |
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Sir — The report, “3-year boy goes for blood, gets HIV” (June 7), shows the carelessness of the doc ... |
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| ONE MORE ROUND |
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option. An alternative argument. The logic underlying the provisions against rape
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| LATE START |
| A former king of England once turned around the proverb and exclaimed, “Better never than late.” A former prime minister of I...| Read.. |
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| Fish cure or faith healing? |
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In an unusual move, the Andhra Pradesh high court has directed the state government to make scientific tests of a miracle med... | Read.. |
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| Going nowhere |
| The nose and the body cannot be separated and put in different places — that is the disarming defence put forward by the Union coal minister, Shibu Soren, to justify his desir... |
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| More attention to some neglected areas |
| The United Progressive Alliance government will introduce a special programme for dry land farming in the arid and semi-arid regions of the country. Watershed and wasteland de... |
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If by the people you understand the multitude, hoi polloi, ‘tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong: their judgment is a mere lottery. — JOHN DRYDEN
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