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| No roads to the market |
| How its rural economy is making India fall behind development goals |
| What is the difference between animals and humans? Had you asked George Orwell, the answer might have been ? none at all. But there are differences between animals and humans. Some flow out of the use of language. As a consequence of language, humans... |
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Sir ? In voting George W. Bush into power for a second term, the American people have endorsed his ... |
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| GENTLE BUT FIRM |
| There are very few more misleading things than a hawk in a dove?s plumage. Mr Manmohan Singh is not only the mildest of men, ...|
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| STRONG WORDS |
| The road to peace is long and uneven. If a conflict is as old as the Naga insurgency, it would be na?ve to expect the peace-t...|
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| Between tea and the next file |
| It was a late morning at the suburban railway station. A small group of commuters hung around, sipping chai or watching the shoeshine boys stir up a madman wearing a Go... |
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| Ground beneath their feet |
| A certain minister once claimed that members of the West Bengal cabinet were all refugees! An NRI friend of mine with an expired visa was suddenly termed as a refugee by vario... |
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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. ? R. BURTON
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