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Since 1st March, 1999
 
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Reforms gone haywire
The word, ?comprador?, of 16th-century vintage, has its roots in the Portuguese language. It has, however, travelled far and wide since. It originally meant a native house-steward, at least so suggest the dictionaries. Gradually, in the heady colonia...  | Read.. 
 
Letters to the Editor
Retired hurt
Sir ? Reading Bob Woolmer?s interview, where he reminisces about the former South African skipper, ...  | Read.. 
 
The wrong choice
Sir ? In ?The verdict and after? (Nov 26), Ashok Mitra talks about ?American imperialism? and the ? ...  | Read.. 
 
Parting shot
Sir ? Six months back, my ration card was confiscated by the ration dealer as I had defaulted on dr ...  | Read.. 
 
EDITORIAL
STILL BARKING
The left has had its way and the LPG price hike has been partly rolled back. But the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is st...| Read.. 
 
PRODIGAL POLLS
Transparency should be a mindset and not a set of closely guarded rules. This seems to be the principle that prompted the Ele...| Read.. 
 
FIFTH COLUMN
 
Going up in smoke
Somebody had to lead the way, but who would have thought that it would be Bhutan? Last week, the tiny Himalayan kingdom becam...  | Read.. 
OPED
Uncle Tom out of his cabin
There are just too many Uncle Toms in the International Cricket Council. These black and brown men seem to be in a race among themselves to keep the white man happy. Not that ...  | Read.. 
 
Never to be seen again
Trends in the status of threatened species: The Red List Indices show that the status of birds and amphibians continues to deteriorate...For birds the RLI demonstrates ...  | Read.. 
 
SCRIPSI
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. ? PLATO