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| What textbooks can’t do |
| How Arjun Singh might make education mean something to the young |
| When he was presiding over the ministry of human resource development, Murli Ma- nohar Joshi had a carefully formulated plan. This was to alter the perception of the minds of children — their ideas, values and their view of the world around them — ... |
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| All that glitters |
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Sir — When Richard Gere was jeered off the podium at the AIDS conference in Bangkok recently, all b ... |
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| Body of protest |
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Sir — The report, “Naked anger at army” (July 16), by Khelen Thokchom left me breathless for a whil ... |
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| Scan the results |
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Sir — The results of this year’s Madhyamik Examinations were not available on the West Bengal gover ... |
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| TWO BLACK DAYS |
| Eggs and tomatoes, and broken light bulbs — perhaps that is what Trinamool Congress legislators are made of. Because these ar...| Read.. |
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| TAKEN AT THE FLOOD |
| Until a few days ago, Assam had resigned itself to having to live with the floods. The chief minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi, had sa...| Read.. |
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What could be more disturbing than the gruesome images of charred bodies of children all in a heap that we saw on television ... | Read.. |
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| Wade into troubled waters |
| Health-related food security issues:
Food security is obviously one of the prime factors for nutritional well-being,
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| Learning the hard way |
| It was a cruel metamorphosis by which
the kitchen meant to cook nutritious food for poor school children in Tamil Nadu’s
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And all shall be well and/ All manner of things shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into a crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one. — T.S. ELIOT
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