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| India remains incredible |
| The Congress has decided to party at the taxpayers’ expense |
| Last Monday was a terrible day for the global capital markets. The Dow Jones index slipped below the 12,000 mark, the FTSE 100 plunged by almost two per cent to a two-year low, and the sensitive index took a 951 point pounding and fell below the 15,0... |
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| Up in flames |
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Sir — The unrest in Tibet is a cause for concern (“Simmering anger led to Tibetan backlash”, Mar 19 ... |
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Sir — The report, “Welcome to Friday confluence” (Mar 20), points out that Friday, March 21, is sp ... |
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| STILL WHINING |
| Asim Dasgupta’s budget speeches fall into a deadly pattern. He is an interminable speaker. He begins by blaming the Central g...|
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| HOME TRUTHS |
| It is usually in Shakespearean comedy that vexed fathers appeal to figures of authority for intervention when their daughters...|
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| Kingdom of dirt and muck |
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The cockroach is a deft creature that manages to invade our lives, our living spaces, our privacy, our possessions and it mul... | Read.. |
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Some of your hurts you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived,/ But what torments of grief you endured/ From evils which never arrived! — RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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