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| Served up for the people |
| When smart professionals package speculation and gossip |
| In the bad old monopolist days, when All India Radio and Doordarshan owned public broadcasting, you sat by the radio or television set hoping for news but got policy statements, official speeches and accounts of VIP doings instead. Now that broadcast... |
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| Paper tigers |
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Sir — Indian cricketers have lived up to Ricky Ponting’s comment that they are paper tigers on fore ... |
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| WEAK CLUB |
| There is something rotten in a democracy where the Union budget does not get a chance to be properly debated in parliament. T...|
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| LONG ROAD |
| The time has finally come for the Maoists in Nepal to re-write the country’s — and their own — history. In a few days they ar...|
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| Mirth and Malice |
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The Lunar New Year hangover is still on. And it shows the way China is changing every day.... | Read.. |
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| Sleeping with the caste enemy |
| When Sonelal Patel, the leader of Apna Dal, exhorted his kinsfolk to “unite and snatch power”, and Om Prakash Rajbhar declared that “without the support of smaller parties, th... |
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His hatred of snobs derived from his snobbishness, but made the simple-minded (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness. — MARCEL PROUST
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