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| Measuring our humanity |
| We are callous towards evils that do not affect us |
| On November 5, twelve people were killed in bomb blasts in Guwahati. (Two more died later.) TV channels that evening hardly lifted the news above ticker level. Of three newspapers I saw next morning, only one carried it on the front page, in an incon... |
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| Turn of the tide |
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Sir — The stunning defeat of the Republican Party in the mid-term elections in the United States of ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Good sense seems to have dawned on the Left Front chairman, Biman Bose, at last. He has admi ... |
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| NOWHERE TO GO |
| Those who fly into Calcutta are struck by a certain eerie quality of its outskirts — by the wide and smooth highways unclutte...|
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| GLOBAL CAMPUS |
| Sometimes, globalization creates the happiest confusions. Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union now has an American, le...|
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A “gaffe” is a true statement that outrages the hypocrites, who then mobilize to shut the truth-teller up. The most common ga... | Read.. |
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophis- ters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
— EDMUND BURKE
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