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| Voting on Europe |
| The French referendum is an assertion of nationalist sentiment |
| In the last week of May, as the French were preparing to vote on the new European constitution, I was travelling through two countries connected most intimately with France. Reading the newspapers, and talking to a cross-section of scholars, I got a ... |
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| One man?s whim |
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Sir ? On television recently, I heard the railways minister, Laloo Prasad Yadav, saying that he rai ... |
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| Sons of the soil |
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Sir ? The controversial Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) bill proposed by the United ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir ? I support Anbumani Ramadoss?s proposal to ban smoking from Indian movies. I hope that a simil ... |
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| A NEW INFIRMITY |
| Like the wellbeing of children, the wellbeing of the elderly indicates the level of security, civilization and sensitiveness ...|
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| Idle dreams of an afternoon |
| The older a person gets, the more he dreams of past events. I have found this to be true in my case. I dream during my aftern... |
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Life is not hurrying/ on to a receding future, nor hankering after/ an imagined past. It is the turning/ aside like Moses to the miracle/ of the lit bush, to a brightness/ that seemed as transitory as your youth/ once, but is the eternity that awaits you. ? R.S. THOMAS
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| Eyes
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| Like a careful chess player, L.K. Advani is going step by step. He knows when to lose a pawn to gain the board... |
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