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| Balancing needs |
| India needs a vision with common sense |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was addressing the “CII Steel Summit: Vision 2020” when, with his characteristic gentleness, he managed to make several telling points, beginning with: “I want the Mittals and the Tatas, and all others who are eyeing glo... |
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| Loo and behold |
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Sir — Even if every Indian household was to be provided with plush toilets and running water, it is ... |
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| Money for nothing |
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Sir — It is ridiculous to rejoice at India’s becoming a trillion-dollar economy (“Billion with a tr ... |
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| Erratum |
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In “Why remember” (April 21), the review of a programme in memory of Rajeswari Datta, the reviewer’ ... |
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| BEST ELEVEN |
| A gruesome murder and a ridiculous mess with the rules could not stop the juggernaut of the Australian cricket team. It won t...|
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| TOO RUSSIAN |
| None of Russia’s leaders, apart from Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), has asked its people for forgiveness. Yeltsin was also unique...|
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| Rule of the wrong |
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Something strange has overtaken life in India. It is as though integrity and decency have been thrown to the winds, with no n... | Read.. |
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| Living on the edge |
| India is a country of conflicting realities. Nothing illustrates this better than the confusing results of various surveys undertaken recently on the liveability of Indian cit... |
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| With a little help from above |
| The congested streets of Dhaka used to be shrouded by a pall of black smoke that infested the lungs of the city dwellers, be they pedestrians, cyclists or bus passengers. The ... |
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Society already understands that the criminal is not he who washes our dirty linen in public, but he who dirties the linen.
— VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
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