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| Distilled politics |
| India’s current inflation is one instance of predatory behaviour |
| “Sensex rises despite inflation,” blares the newspaper headline. Sweet innocence: the cub sub-editor who arranged the heading obviously does not know that actually one reason for the buoyancy in the share market is inflation. The constituents of soci... |
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| Shamed democracy |
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Sir — “Naked run for life in Nandigram” (May 6) does not come as a shock to those familiar with the ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — I was travelling by a CTC bus recently. A checker got on the bus and asked the passengers to ... |
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| THREESOME |
| All the Bharatiya Janata Party needs is “one chance” to rule Karnataka. This was L.K. Advani’s touching appeal to voters duri...|
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| IN THE RED ZONE |
| Flesh, marble and turf are all in deep peril in Calcutta. So the courts and a few active citizens have been trying, from time...|
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| Food for thought |
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When Shri Bush and Kumari Condoleezza Rice talk about rising prices of food and pass the buck of their failure to grow enough... | Read.. |
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But I ask you — would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we import lard or metal ores? Let me tell you — preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
— HERMANN GOERING
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| Mughal of love |
| The magician, like the trickster, is well advised not to show his hand. Salman Rushdie’s new novel, eight... |
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| Division belts |
| A macabre sight is compulsory viewing for Turkish Cypriot children in Nicosia. School excursions take them to a house ... |
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