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| Only for the poor |
| The report on subsidies has a few suggestions, but not enough |
| Subsidies on food, fertilizers and petro-products have been a continuing and disturbing feature of our budgets. The national common minimum programme promised a report on this subject, with a view to targeting the subsidies to the really deserving po... |
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| Blood brothers |
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Sir ? Other than military rule, all the retrograde characteristics of Pakistan listed by S.L. Rao i ... |
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| Imaginative account |
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Sir ? Ashok Mitra?s delusional deconstruction of history in ?On rendering accounts? (Jan 7), where ... |
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| Beyond help |
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Sir ? The editorial, ?Helping hand? (Dec 29), while expressing concern over the bribing of voters b ... |
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| MORE THAN A TURF |
| Forging political alliances can be as tricky as running them. The seat-sharing arrangement that the Congress has struck with ...|
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| SEEING SENSE |
| AIDS is the great leveller. Yet the right tone of political leadership is crucial for fighting the epidemic nationally. The b...|
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?We may have severely underestimated the level of the tsunami hazard along the margins of the Atlantic Ocean,? said an unname... | Read.. |
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| How the pictures lie |
| While the recent census reports have shown an alarming drop in the number of girls against that of boys, there is a silver lining around the dark cloud. Or so it seems to our ... |
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| Some designs are not for everyone |
| I remember a time when designer clothes were available only in France and Italy. ?Designer clothes? implied Versace, Gucci, Calvin Klein or any name that we pronounced wrong. ... |
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I do not think it is possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism. We must start from a broad acceptance of whatever seems to be knowledge and is not rejected for some specific reason.
? BERTRAND RUSSELL
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