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| A liberal budget |
| Confusing the means with the end is a serious matter |
| At this time of the year, all eyes focus on the budget, even though, with reforms, a budget should lose all its complexity and become completely transparent. No doubt deliberately, a few days before the Central budget, the Indian Liberal Group’s “Lib... |
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| Play the cards right |
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Sir — The Bharatiya Janata Party may be piqued at the president’s decision to sack the governors of Uttar ... |
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| In the end |
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Sir — I fail to understand why 30 years should be considered too tender an age to be given capital ... |
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| Cross-currents |
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Sir — I would like to point out that the article on the Calcutta regatta had misreported a few thin ... |
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| OFF THE RAILS |
| With one month gone, the United Progressive Alliance government has little to show as reforms. The railway budget and the Uni...| Read.. |
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| RITUAL RONDO |
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fixed rituals. There are rituals of protest and rituals of exhibiting power. Power
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| Look back without anger |
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the concerted effort of the Hindu right to transform many institutional spaces
by filling them with its hand-picked people. This is a well-worn method... |
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| Unequal distribution of wealth |
| West Bengal is unique among the states of India in having district-wise estimates of domestic product...available from 1980-81 onwards; however, frequent changes of base and i... |
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. — UMBERTO ECO
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