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| At the Yasukuni shrine |
| Militarism may not be behind the revival of Japanese military power |
| Curiosity drew me to the Yasukuni shrine during a recent trip to Tokyo. When I lived in Beijing in the Nineties, I had been struck by the close attention paid by the Chinese authorities to every visit by a Japanese minister to this Shinto place of wo... |
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| Alien duties |
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Sir — The proposition of the United Progressive Alliance to place a 5-7 per cent cess on the corpo ... |
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| Not by the book |
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Sir — It is difficult to understand why the West Bengal state education department wants to throttl ... |
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| Ugly neighbour |
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Sir — Environmentalists are right in saying that the new three-storeyed building which will come up ... |
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| WITHOUT COVERS |
| Lifting a veil is always risky business. It might uncover conflicts too complicated to smooth over with a homogeneous notion ...| Read.. |
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| TROUBLED BY WATER |
| Calcuttans are generally a tolerant lot. They do not seem to mind breathing noxious air, or having their nerves rattled by no...| Read.. |
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What happens when there is a stand-off between the country’s largest media organization and one of our leading business house... | Read.. |
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| Joint confusion |
| If the outcome of each dialogue with Pakistan is going to be judged by how India has done down Pakistan, then the peace process between the two countries cannot move forward. ... |
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| Towards a world free of chemicals |
| Brain MRI scans showed that children with sub-optimal development of certain areas of the brain seemed more vulnerable to the effects of PCBs. The smaller the splenium (the ba... |
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At its birth, the republic gave voice to three words — Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! If Europe is wise and just, each of those words signifies peace.
— ALPHONSE MARIE LAMARTINE
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