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| Politics of the budget |
| A budget with pre-election stunts, not ministerial insights |
| After the budget was announced, there has been a precipitous decline in the stock market, severe criticism of some proposals — especially the bank loan write-offs for farmers, of the lack of transparency about how banks are to be reimbursed, the mora... |
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| Ill to the core |
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Sir — It is a shame for civil society that a terminally-ill patient had to die without treatment on ... |
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| Nothing great |
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Sir — Ashok Mitra’s article, “This god did not fail” (Feb 29), reads more like an emotional, anti-A ... |
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| Parting Shot |
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Sir — Why did Khushwant Singh have to give out the story of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader < ... |
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| LEFT AS USUAL |
| Stability, even in appearance, goes a long way in the troubled states of the Northeast. The simplest explanation of the Left ...|
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| WON’T TELL |
| The State in West Bengal is yet to shed its habits of secrecy. None less than the secretary of the state information commissi...|
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| Message From The HIlls |
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You cannot fool all the people all the time. Lincoln’s utterance could not ring truer in Darjeeling at present. But Subash Gh... | Read.. |
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