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| In good faith |
| Why cricket has to make its peace with real life |
| One useful way of defining contemporary Indianness is to attend to the way in which Pakistanis define themselves and then subtract the difference. Shahryar Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, and once that country’s foreign secretary, w... |
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| Taste of faith |
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Sir — The reports, “Faith proves sweeter than filth” and “Miracle, to drink and take home”(Aug 20) ... |
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| Lesser evil |
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Sir — Sanjib Baruah, in “Torchlight on a blindfolded face” (Aug 10), does a surgical analysis of t ... |
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| NOT FAIR |
| When the Congress was in power in the Centre last, in the early Nineties, it was seized with a mission to liberalize the econ...|
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| FOR A SONG |
| There is something ridiculous as well as pathetic about senior political leaders getting mired in debates over banal non-issu...|
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| The
lady vanishes |
| Fazila Bibi,
from a remote West Bengal village, defied tradition last
month. She decided to give birth in a hospital and not
in her home. She had been persuaded that instituti... |
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| Mystery
of the missing women |
| AMARTYA SEN,
“More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing”, The New
York Review of Books, December 20, 1990: “...we can
estimate the number of ‘missing women’ in a country,... |
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. — JORGE LUIS BORGES
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