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| This budget will not leave anyone very happy |
| The budget being announced today has raised monstrous expectations. Reductions and restructuring of personal income-tax slabs and rates, corporate income-tax rates, minimum alternate tax, excise duties on almost every product, general customs duty re... |
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Sir ? There is nothing strange in Amit Chaudhuri re-claiming his aesthetic of ?The casual moment? ( ... |
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Sir ? Having suffered the anonymity of being an ?ordinary? person over the years, I plodded through ... |
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| STORY LINE |
| Even a fragmented electoral verdict has a central story line. At the centre of the verdict in Bihar is the people?s desire to...|
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| TWIN ROADS |
| There was a catchy motto hidden in the pre-budget address of the president, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, to a joint session of parl...|
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The old Sixties slogan urged people to ?Make Love, Not War,? but who says you have to choose? If you drove the other side?s s... | Read.. |
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| A way out in the northern kingdom |
| India?s policy towards Nepal is contingent upon the king blinking first. King Gyanendra is being encouraged to restore democracy and go along the path of reconciliation with t... |
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A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lover ? never make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
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