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| A different surprise |
| The finance minister has corrected some of his previous mistakes |
| I once came to know P. Chidambaram briefly. He was the most intelligent minister I came across in the government of P.V. Narasimha Rao. I found him open, curious and willing to learn. In these respects he was the antithesis of an average minister, wh... |
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| Dangerously predictable |
| In this budget, the finance minister has tried to reconcile four considerations — politics, controlling inflationary tendenci... |
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| State of health |
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Sir — It was only a month or so ago that Anbumani Ramadoss, the Union health minister, waxed eloque ... |
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| Low, yet high |
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Sir — The report on the IIMC increasing postgraduate diploma course fees from the present Rs 2 lakh ... |
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| TO WIN FRIENDS AND VOTES |
| T he finance minister, P. Chidambaram, presented his seventh budget against the backdrop of a strong domestic economy facing ...|
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| A legend rendered beautifully |
| The return of senior director, Shyamanand Jalan, to the Hindi stage after a prolonged retirement due to ill health calls for celebration — not so much for sentimental reasons ... |
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| An artist of the fluttering world |
| But wooing the common viewer can be risky business. After some time, the quiet exuberance of these images begin to settle, the loveliness lingers on, but the eye does not long... |
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| Season’s melodies amid sound and fury |
| When Indo-Occidental Symbiosis conceptualized an evening of Tagore’s songs of spring, the idea must have been to create a musical extravaganza. When the show, titled Basant... |
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Very few factors help produce economies of scale. Technology may be one, but not people. When it comes to motivating people and using their brainpower, you hit diseconomies of scale early. At that point, bigger isn’t better.
— ALONZO L. McDONALD
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