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| Of undying friendship |
| Opening Nathu-la has nothing to do with trade or tourism |
| Roads and railways are the sinews of empire. When the Himalayas were being blasted to lay the Darjeeling road, a percipient old Tibetan remarked to a British official, ?Sahib, the sound of that powder is heard in Lhasa!? He did not say Peking because... |
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| In hot pursuit |
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Sir ? The attempt of the Gujarat government to prosecute Aamir Khan for filming a chinkara seven ye ... |
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Sir ? The promotionals for many of our airlines should read as follows: ?Welcome to India?s low cos ... |
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| ON CONTRADICTION |
| Contradictions, according to the German philosopher, Hegel, lie at the heart of dialectics and therefore of the cognitive pro...|
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| Time to ask for the score |
| Recently I lost a close relative 28 years younger than me. I received a lot of letters of condolence. Among them was one from... |
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I think there?s a terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you?re born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top. That?s what?s enabled her [Mrs Thatcher] to turn Britain into a cross between Singapore and Telford.
? PETER COOK
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| Au revoir, Zizou |
| Greatness, for Zinedine Zidane who is often compared to footballing legends like Pele and Maradona, wasn’t uniform ? it ... |
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