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| The agrarian crisis |
| Why are the living standards of Indian rural households falling? |
| It is debatable whether any country’s annual budget receives even a fraction of the attention that the Indian media gives to the Union budget in our country. The intensive coverage starts almost a fortnight before the finance minister reveals his ca... |
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| Tread with caution |
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Sir — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, in his article on India and the current Tibet crisis, has been somewhat ... |
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| Book bond |
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Sir — L.K. Advani’s visit to Sonia Gandhi’s residence on Holi to give her a copy of his autobiograp ... |
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| Other worlds |
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Sir — A void will be created in the world of science fiction with Arthur C. Clarke passing away in ... |
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| WORLD GO SLOW |
| By all accounts, the recession in the United States of America has been under way since the beginning of the year, or even si...|
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| MOST UNKIND |
| For an elderly person in Delhi, to have a place to live in, owned or rented, is no reason to feel secure. According to a rece...|
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| Time To Clear The Air |
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Notwithstanding common perceptions about the malevolence of British rule, India should consider itself fortunate that it got ... | Read.. |
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| They didn’t start the fire |
| Students’ clashes, bloodshed, death, imposition of Section 144, the university closed sine die. The Bengal Engineering and Science University seems to stop at nothing.... |
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| Class struggle, then and now |
| Going by ‘tradition’, the 2008 student elections at Presidency College have been ‘peaceful’ — barring one day of violence at the Hindu Hostel. The victory margin — 35 to the S... |
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We used to say that a passage of good style began with a fresh, usual word, and continued with fresh, usual words to the end; there was nothing more to it. — FORD MADOX FORD
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