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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Theatre of the absurd |
| Saddam’s hanging and other anomalies in human behaviour |
| The Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, had once urged the human child to come away to the waters and the wild for the world was more full of weeping than it could understand. Leaving out that part about the waters and the wild, Yeats of course had a p... | Read.. |
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| Learn the hard way |
| Sir— In “Access to education” (Jan 17), André Béteille has persuasively argued for equal opportunit ... | Read.. |
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| Wish fulfilled |
| Sir— The University Grants Commission should be thanked for its one-time grant of Rs 86.55 lakh to ... | Read.. |
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| Parting shot |
| Sir— The report, “Wake-up call in girl child deaths” (Dec 25, 2006), is a harsh reminder that despi ... | Read.. |
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| LOOKING AHEAD |
| The recent visit of the external affairs minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, to Islamabad suggests that relations between India an...| Read.. |
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| MORAL MINISTER |
| It is annoying, to say the least, to have one’s moral decisions as an adult made by a minister. And more so when the governme...| Read.. |
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| To be Less than Equal |
| We have a new chief justice of India, an officer who wields great power. And instead of hailing him as one who has reached th... | Read.. |
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| The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can’t steer. — JOYCE CARY |
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| Bicycle diaries |
| Photographer Ashvin Mehta achieves unusual effects by defamiliarizing the bicycle in his... | Read.. |
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