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| News from China |
| Antique porcelain, tiger photos, karaoke and ant powder |
| Farmer Zhao Danian and his wife Wang Qiufeng went to Yuzhou city. There she walked into an antique shop. The shopkeeper told her the value of the porcelain vases, many of which had been found in excavations in villages. When she told him that she was... |
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| Easy rider |
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Sir — Producing a small car at the affordable price of Rs 1 lakh is an enormous engineering feat. R ... |
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| PARTY LINE |
| Communist rhetoric is often a case study in confused thinking. After six decades of independence, they are no closer to decip...|
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| FIRM HAND |
| One of the tricks of success is to begin with attainable goals. So when a single district decides to stop corporal punishment...|
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| Reward for laziness |
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Another political farce is keeping us entertained through the early days of January — the frenetic lobbying for the Bharat R... | Read.. |
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| Far from the crowd, close to madness |
| It was around four in the evening when I set out from Purvapalli, Santiniketan, for Rabindra Bhavan. At the entrance of Rabindra Bhavan, the security personnel were anxiously ... |
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| Private eye |
| About ten years ago, a newly-married couple, very much in love and splurging on a taxi ride home after a special dinner for which they had saved up, were stopped by two police... |
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| Safety net |
| If you are a peeping tom, it is most likely that you’ll get past the lone ... |
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Television: the key to all minds and hearts because it permits people to be entertained by their government without ever having to participate in it. — RICHARD CONDON
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