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| Mothers and daughters |
| A crime of one’s own |
| It cannot always be done neatly. Killing baby girls is most easily done immediately after birth, and even then it could be messy, especially if the mother is left to do it on her own. For example — and examples in India are countless — a 25-year-old ... |
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| Terminal trouble |
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Sir — It was unfortunate that a passenger fell and hurt himself gravely in the dirty toilet of the ... |
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Sir — Women in India are often tortured or killed for giving birth to girls. But the truth is that ... |
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| PROTEST MARCH |
| China would do anything to forget the curtain-raiser to the Beijing Olympics. Only months before the games are to start, Tibe...|
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| DEATH DRIVE |
| With buses streaking murderously through the city day after day, Calcutta is plumbing new depths of what has begun to look li...|
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| God Save The Country |
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It is an intriguing role that the army in Pakistan has to play in the coming days. An institution meant to guard the internat... | Read.. |
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| Miles away from Shangri-La |
| I wonder what role the “reformed noblemen” of Lhasa have in the present uprising there. Three years ago, I met one of them at his home in Barkhor Street in the tourist hub of ... |
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| Favour for the strategic partner |
| Tibet is in the news. Chinese troops in Lhasa are violently suppressing demonstrations that commemorate the rising 49 years ago which forced the Dalai Lama into exile. ... |
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;/ One need not be a house;/ The brain has corridors surpassing/ Material place.
— EMILY DICKINSON
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