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| Controlling inflation |
| Risk-free policies to contain inflation are rare |
| One of the more prominent achievements of successive Central governments in India during the last decade has been the remarkable degree of price stability in the economy. Growth rates have fluctuated, debates have ranged over whether there has been a... |
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| Selling the image |
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Sir — Could it get more shameful? We once considered Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s face plastered on full ... |
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| Unsettling questions |
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Sir — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray’s “Clinging to identity” (Aug 28) makes some valid points about Britain’ ... |
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Sir — For fire in markets, shopping malls and privately-owned buildings in Calcutta, the owner or p ... |
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| SLIGHTLY WORSE |
| In the Reserve Bank of India’s annual report for 2003-04, of particular interest are the Central bank’s views on gross domest...|
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| IN HOUSE |
| A well-known truth may seem quite shocking when it bursts into the open. The role the Communist Party of India (Marxist) loca...|
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The prime minister is holding his first full-dress press conference in New Delhi this Saturday. The way the press has been ea... | Read.. |
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| Go slow with the reforms |
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| Like an insect sting |
| “You have to reach the subject ‘between his shirt and skin’, in a moment of inner silence, as lightly as possibly, so that he can scarcely feel it, so that the sting is as pa... |
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Commuter — one who spends his life/ In riding to and from his wife;/ A man who shaves and takes a train,/ And then rides back to shave again. — E.B. WHITE
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