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| Long view of the raj |
| There has been little ill-will between India and Britain |
| Our prime minister is a mild-mannered man; no one, not even his friend, fellow economist and Oxford contemporary, Amartya Sen, would ever call him an ?argumentative Indian?. Yet a speech he recently delivered at Oxford has kicked up an almighty row. ... |
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| Cramped and chaotic |
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Sir ? The report, ?Tiers aloft to ease traffic? (July 27), claims that a major reason for Calcutta? ... |
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| Tit for tat |
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Sir ? Sentiments like the one voiced in the editorial, ?The fall? (July 26) ? ?terror can only be c ... |
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| Prime movers |
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Prime time yesterday was a hectic one for television
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| NO COMEBACKS |
| The return of a phenomenon never quite captures the imagination as the debut appearance. The former Indian captain, Sourav Ga...|
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| Before the cancer spreads |
| Jawaharlal Nehru smoked a cigarette after every meal. Jinnah was a chain smoker. Winston Churchill had a cigar in his mouth m... |
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Life is not all Beer and Skittles. The inherent tragedy of things works itself out from white to black and blacker, and the poor things of a day look ruefully on. Does it shake my cast-iron faith? I cannot say it does. I believe in an ultimate decency of things; ay, and if I woke in hell, should still believe it! ? R.L. STEVENSON
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| wall
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