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| FIGURING BADLY |
| No tale is complete without a twist or two at the end. For the tale of population control in India, the twists are all to be ...|
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| Important changes are not always revolutions. The one that has just taken place in China affects the highest level of leaders...|
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Being away from Delhi cleanses the soul! Away from the mindless political banter, the horrendous traffic snarls, the high pub... | Read.. |
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| No country is safe anymore |
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What would the world be, once bereft/ Of wet and wildness?let them be left,/ O let them be left, wildness and wet;/ Long live the weeds and wilderness yet. ? GERARD M. HOPKINS
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