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| Containing China |
| Why the new Japan is important for the US |
| Shinzo Abe’s accession to premiership in Japan accurately expresses and symbolizes the new Japan that has been in the making over the last few years under the tutelage of his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. One is referring here not so much to change... |
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| Bandh no more |
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Sir — The bold call, “Defy Bandh”, on the front page of The Telegraph (Dec 20), is on ... |
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| TORTUOUS PATH |
| Traders with nothing better to do got together under a neem tree in the 1830s to trade East India Company bonds, and f...|
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| NOT A GIRL |
| The irony of her mother — a widowed farm hand in a Bengali village — being called Unnati, or Progress, is perhaps the least b...|
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| The Babu and His Doings |
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As institutional degradation takes on immense proportions and becomes uncontrollable, much is being lost forever. Once again,... | Read.. |
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| Where angels do not fear to tread |
| “Do I look like a detective?” asked Preeti Das, a rather plain-looking woman in a printed sari. I had not met a woman detective before. I had no idea what they looked ... |
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, / That is not paid with moan; / For we are born in other’s pain, / And perish in our own.
— FRANCIS THOMPSON
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