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| The guru of change |
| What is the government’s essential function? |
| Most of us who are forty or above were brainwashed to accept that the government knew best as to how business should function. We distrusted private businesses. We had great faith in government ownership. Despite the high income taxes, we thought gov... |
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| Power play |
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Sir — Swapan Dasgupta’s assessment of Indo-British interface (“A historic shift”, Jan 26) has not ... |
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| FUTURES PHOBIA |
| The decision of the Forward Markets Commission to stop forward trading in arhar and urad follows a sustained ri...|
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| YOU’RE THE TOP |
| What is Sania Mirza famous for now? Is she famous for the quality of her tennis-playing? Or for the brand of drink she public...|
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These days I read a lot of poetry, Urdu and English. A few couplets of Ghalib, over and over again, and a few pages of latter... | Read.. |
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| Royalists fish in Terai trouble |
| The April-2006 uprising in Nepal had three objectives: a peaceful resolution of the Maoist insurgency; an end to the king’s autocratic rule; and the restructuring of the Nepal... |
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| Roads to peace and freedom |
| The United Nations is also a network of capacities. Some of these, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Development Programme, play c... |
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Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being, that is being, listening and hearing is never repetition.
— GERTRUDE STEIN
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