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| Going on sixty |
| Habits, opinions and anxieties of the Indian republic |
| Midnight’s children will retire next year. If Salman Rushdie had sat the civil service exams and made the grade, he’d be doing sums about his pension in anticipation of turning 60 on August 15, 2007. When independent India completes 60 next year, Ind... |
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| One more time |
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Sir — Scotland Yard and MI5 deserve full credit for thwarting the plot to blow up in midair ten US ... |
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| DIFFERENT CASE |
| The stock market has rebounded sharply from its recent lows on the back of a resurgence of net inflows by foreign institution...|
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| ART OF SPEECH |
| There is no denying that making a speech every year on the occasion of Independence Day is a tedious task. The nation expects...|
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| The cynical way |
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“I used to know when I was being deeply cynical and when I wasn’t,” said a friend who made it into London before they closed ... | Read.. |
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| More of a bane, less of a boon |
| The authorities have clearly failed to make a difference between violation of the law in other spheres — like adulteration of food and medicine for instance — and violation i... |
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Nations, like men, die by imperceptible disorders. We recognize a doomed people by the way they sneeze or pare their nails.
— JEAN GIRAUDOUX
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