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| Tribes and castes |
| Politics is being driven by the competition for backwardness |
| Politics in India is coming to be driven increasingly by the competition for backwardness. The principal contenders in this competition are not individuals, households, or even classes, but castes and tribes. Even the religious minorities, whose prou... |
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| Water everywhere |
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Sir — The Telegraph’s photographers should visit Bangur Avenue and take some pictures of the ... |
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| GOOD TIMING |
| To be effective, comedians and politicians need to get their timing just right. The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and the l...|
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| LITTLE RESPITE |
| Even sworn enemies take time off, but enmity does not necessarily end with truce. The tahdiya between Israel and Hamas...|
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| A Nation in Anguish |
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At a time when the world is looking forward to using alternative sources of energy, nuclear included, when the price of crude... | Read.. |
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| Just another brick in the wall |
| In the campuses across the state, it is the same scene now: long queues, anxious faces, impatient queries, supplications, tears and smiles. It is the season of college admissi... |
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| Darkness with a flicker of light |
| Her long hair hits the ground like a lash as she sits on the floor, gyrating her small torso. Dressed in a white sari bordered in red with a big vermillion bindi... |
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
— PETER USTINOV
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