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| Portrait of a Talib |
| Graeme Smith’s extraordinary video series |
| Indians know Graeme Smith well. He is the youngest captain of a Test cricket team ever: he was 22 when he captained South Africa in the 2003 World Cup. He scored 277 against England at Edgbaston in 2003, and 259 at Lords in the next test, breaking Do... |
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| Greater good |
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Sir — It is true, as Sumanta Sen points out, that the Nepalese are not the original inhabitants of ... |
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| POOR PRECEDENT |
| The practice of democracy is not only about following rules and regulations that have been written down, it is also dependent...|
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| TAMIL LESSON |
| Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has a special place in the pantheon of the Communist Party if India (Marxist): he runs a state govern...|
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| BACK TO SQUARE ONE |
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The reshuffle of the cabinet was disappointing, to say the least, because it made no definitive statement at all despite repo... | Read.. |
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| That’s not a gun in his pocket |
| Since February 2008, men in Italy have been besieged with bad luck, thanks to a court judgment that convicted a 42-year-old worker from Milan of public indecency. The accused ... |
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| Throw for joy |
| James Joyce claimed that to him ‘cuspidor’ was the most beautiful word in the English language. Cuspidor is the more decorative version of the homely word ‘spittoon’, and is... |
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| Look away closer |
| With Italy making it illegal for men to touch themselves “ostentatiously” in public, Italians will now have to reckon with not just one, but two new offences. First, th... |
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| Free flowing |
| India produces an estimated 900 million litres of urine every day, of which an ample volume is piddled in public spaces — on walls, inside parks, besides rail tracks, and, s... |
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There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other’s throat.
— BROOKS ATKINSON
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