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| Reservations again |
| Affirmative action does not always help the most marginalized |
| The spectre of reservations in the private sector threatens to spark off yet another round of potentially polarizing and debilitating politics. There ought to be no disagreement on the proposition that marginalized groups should be given greater acce... |
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| Man without the mask |
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| Be a sport |
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Sir — It was disheartening to see that of the 105 Olympic torch-bearers at the recently held India ... |
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| TWO WOMEN |
| To oppose the banning of a film is not necessarily to endorse its biases. No civilized citizen of a mature democracy would su...| Read.. |
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| EUROPA VEXED |
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| Living on the edge |
| So, you’ve come to see the Ethiopia of India, J.B. Patnaik, then chief minister of Orissa, told me. In 1986, the famine and starvation deaths in Ethiopia shocked the world. It... |
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| A little something for everyone |
| The UPA government will take the lead to introduce legislation for one-third reservation for women in Vidhan Sabhas and in the Lok Sabha. Legislation on domestic violence and ... |
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — ALBERT CAMUS
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