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| Under the carpet |
| Two failed attempts to reform the Indian foreign service |
| Next year, it will be 40 years since the Pillai committee submitted its report on reforming the Indian foreign service. The committee, which gets its name from N.R. Pillai, who was secretary-general of the foreign ministry in Jawaharlal Nehru?s time,... |
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| Bad boys |
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Sir ? The rich and the famous, for example Bill Gates and Madonna, are reported to have consciously ... |
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| Home truths |
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Sir ? I disagree vehemently with Donald MacIntyre?s documentary alleging that disabled children are ... |
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| LATE REPORT |
| Justice delayed is justice denied. The report of the Nanavati commission on the 1984 Sikh riots in Delhi that was tabled in p...|
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| CAN?T DECIDE |
| Rebels often become prisoners of their own rituals. Militant groups in the North-east have a history of stepping up violence ...|
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| View From the Cockpit |
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Just visualize this. An Air India Boeing, manufactured in 1992 and leased from South Korea, takes off early one morning from ... | Read.. |
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| Sorry spectacle |
| The late G.D. Birla had once said in Calcutta that if he were a young man, he would also have become a Naxalite. Those were the days when the ultra-left agitation in the state... |
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| Give them a fair deal |
| To support African efforts to increase South-South trade and regional integration, to improve specialization and create more jobs and prosperity;... |
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History teaches us that men and nations be- have wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
? ABBA EBAN
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