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| Best seat in the House |
| The confidence vote had all the elements of epic theatre |
| When the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee, announced the result of the trust vote, he did it with a finely judged perfunctoriness. “The ayes have it,” he said wearily, “the ayes have it.” He then jumped to his feet as if to head off any f... |
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| Grey market |
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Sir — Ashok Mitra’s paranoia about social decay is thoroughly confusing (“Bunker Hill”, July 21). ... |
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| Cruel joke |
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Sir — Every academic session all over India begins with horrific incidents of ragging (“Adult offe ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — It is unfortunate that a veteran Congressman like Somen Mitra had to quit the party (“Somen ... |
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| FRINGE PLAY |
| Politics and leadership are not about having a stentorian voice, displaying the art of oratory and making dramatic gestures i...|
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| NO CURE |
| Private tuition poses the same sort of problem for the Left Front government in Bengal as autorickshaws do. It is irreparably...|
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| Rules For The Games |
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Beijingers have been flooded with so many instructions on how to behave during the Olympics that it would be understandable i... | Read.. |
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| Biofuels and the food crisis |
| Despite the increase in demand for food, recent studies by more than one organization indicate that the single most important factor contributing to the surge in global foodgr... |
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| The good angels in khaki |
| Community policing is now practised in different countries. However, there is considerable confusion regarding its meaning. Many police officers feel that any kind of cooperat... |
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
— THOMAS SZASZ
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