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| Straddling three nations |
| The US, India and France were all Alice Thorner?s homes |
| The American social scientist, Alice Thorner, died in Paris last month. She was eighty-eight and in failing health for some months. The end therefore was not altogether unexpected. Even so, the pangs of sorrow felt by friends are hardly diminished. T... |
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| Change the script |
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Sir ? Githa Hariharan tries hard to keep to the centre ground in her article, ?Perfecting the past? ... |
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Sir ? Do a few of people, hand-picked by the United Liberation Front of Asom, have the right to dec ... |
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| Cut price |
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Sir ? Debashish Bhattacharyya?s article on the ?Media War? (Aug 21) in Mumbai bears out why the cit ... |
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| WRONG STRESS |
| Student stress seems to be the government?s latest worry. A number of reforms in syllabi, and in the structure and methods of...|
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| DIVIDE AND VOTE |
| In a mature democracy, the people vote, not as members of a group, but as free individuals. But elections in India have becom...|
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| Deep end of the abyss |
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How wrong our priorities are! Departments of government are in a state of perpetual distraction with either pandering to the ... | Read.. |
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie,/ Love, the reeling midnight through,/ For tomorrow we shall die!/ (But, alas, we never do).
? DOROTHY PARKER
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| House on fire |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian By Marina Lewycka, Viking, ? 9... |
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