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| Reading it right |
| The right to education bill is crucial to India?s future |
| The right to education bill that will be tabled sometime in the coming year, has the potential to bring about a significant transformation in elementary education in India. It attempts to make effective a child?s right to free and compulsory educatio... |
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| Is there a healthy option? |
| Sir —
Gouri Rani Chakraborty’s death and the appalling
‘treatment’ she received prior to it,
is yet another reminder of the poor medical services
available in the hospitals of our city (“Death
after ant bites”, Nov 16). These hospitals
have turned into virtual death-traps. Gouri Rani’s
case has too many anomalies ... | Read..
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| OLD GOLD |
| Gold prices have been scaling new heights almost every day in the domestic market, while it has reached an 18-year high in th...|
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| WRONG STRATEGY |
| In the hands of cynical people politics can be frightening business. The Congress?s show of solidarity with Mr Adhir Chowdhur...|
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| Elegy
for the tiger |
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The very recent news about poached tigers in Ranthambhore over the last couple of years has been scary, because it reflects t... | Read.. |
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| Burnt out case |
| The roots of
the recent violence in Paris can be traced to the functioning
of the French establishment and the elite, writes Jay
Bhattacharjee ... | Read.. |
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| The hidden costs of conflict |
| In the Democratic Republic of the
Congo deaths attributable directly or indirectly to conflict
exceed the losses sustained by Britain in the First World
War ... | Read.. |
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The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
? REINHOLD NEIBUHR
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