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| THE IMPLICIT DEBATE |
| Messages might be erased when the messenger is shot |
| In the debate on the 123 agreement, commentators have overwhelmingly supported the prime minister and lambasted the communists. It is difficult to decide whether this is based on the relative merit of their positions, or whether those who have access... |
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| Race against time |
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Sir — As so lucidly presented by Rohini Chaki, the state of horse racing in Calcutta requires a tho ... |
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| TOUCH AND GO |
| The high drama continues in Pakistan. After a few nerve-wracking hours at the airport, the exiled former premier of the count...|
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| SEEDS OF DEATH |
| It is the farmers’ fault that they kill themselves in their hundreds in Maharashtra — they chew tobacco and sit around. It is...|
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| Value The Property |
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Indian embassies abroad and Raj Bhavans in India are, more often than not, great residences and valuable real estate. Those w... | Read.. |
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| Beastly tales from here and now |
| By 2009, the tiger, rhinoceros, and some other quadrupeds of the Alipore zoo are likely be shifted to the proposed bio-ecological park in Bhagwanpur mouza under Sona... |
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| Under the greenwood tree |
| They don’t sell hats outside the Colombo zoo, those bright green and pink palm-leaf mementos which, from almirah tops or forgotten corners, keep reminding a visitor to the Cal... |
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| Family
and other animals |
| I remember the morning I had visited the Calcutta zoo for the first time. It was bright and cold, in early December. My sister and I, both seven years old then, had sat up thr... |
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In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. — THEODOR ADORNO
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