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| The hunger game |
| There is a law against everything, none against starving to death |
| It is somewhat like a game of snakes and ladders. Ladders you eat, snakes you die. If you are poor and landless, perhaps of a tribal community struggling to make a living out of forest produce, in one of the remoter villages of ? according to the hum... |
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| Running after ruin |
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Sir ? Ashok Mitra considers India to be awash with money (?A cynic on cricket?, April 18). While la ... |
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| CHANCE AGAIN |
| The distance between a bipolar world and a unipolar world is not measurable in terms of ideology. In terms of chronology, the...|
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| CASTING A LINE |
| The outsiders? gaze may cause changes in its object. It may be hoped that the expected changes in the sphere of caste discrim...|
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| Victim
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The Congress, true to form, is assaulting those, within its borders, who deliver. The attack on Sheila Dikshit by Congress me... | Read.. |
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| For more substance |
| A curious thing about the United Nations is that it has existed for sixty years without a definite identity. Sometimes the focus is on the general assembly, sometimes on one o... |
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| A vicious cycle of violence |
| Modelled on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Ordinance promulgated by the colonial British government on August 15, 1942 to suppress ?Quit India Movement?, the Armed Forces S... |
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World, in hounding me, what do you gain?/ How can it harm you if I choose, astutely,/ rather to stock my mind with things of beauty,/ than waste its stock on every beauty?s claim.
? SOR JUANA IN?S DE LA CRUZ
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