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| Case of the missing wife |
| History is free, and thus should be used responsibly |
| There is a story, no doubt a product of Oxbridge cloister apocrypha, that when it was pointed out to the famous historian, Jack Gallagher, that the maps accompanying his essay on the partition of Africa were all wrong, he retorted, “Maps are supposed... |
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| Money into votes |
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Sir — The massive Rs 60,000 crore loan-waiver offered to farmers in the latest Union budget by the ... |
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| POLL POWER |
| Elections are a necessary condition for the functioning of a democracy. But the holding of elections cannot be taken as a suf...|
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| RETURN FIRE |
| A “holocaust” in return for home-made rockets exactly conveys the asymmetry on which Israel’s latest assault on Gaza is found...|
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| No Country for Old Men |
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It wasn’t much of a New Year for a group of old men in Beijing. There was no question of them going home. For them, ‘home’ wa... | Read.. |
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| Flawed approach |
| The panchayat elections will be held in West Bengal soon, and all political parties are, naturally, concerned about the votes to be cast by Muslims who make up (dependi... |
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History never stops. It progresses ceaselessly day and night. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop Geography.
— AUGUSTO MONTERROSO
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