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| Rise of the Muslims |
| On a book about how Islam changed the world |
| Before the Industrial Revolution, the world was very sparsely settled. Akbar’s empire is estimated to have had about 10 crore people — and it was a world power because it was so populous. The entire world’s population might have been 50 crore, agains... |
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| Comrade speaker |
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Sir — The expulsion of Somnath Chatterjee from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has enhanced ... |
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| OWN GOAL |
| When the self-proclaimed harbingers of democracy in Pakistan decide on major policy changes, they do so on pure instinct. On ...|
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| HAPPY UNION |
| What is the best way of dealing with criminals and extortionists? Unionize them and make them part of the system. Such resour...|
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| A Brave new World |
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And now, the serial blasts across Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Extremism, whether of the militant and dictatorial Left or of the ... | Read.. |
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| Dealing with subsidies |
| Subsidies have been the albatross around the necks of finance ministers, from Manmohan Singh in 1991 to P. Chidambaram today. These have constrained the freedom to invest in a... |
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| Trailed by historic blunders |
| Prakash Karat has purged the comrade out of Somnath Chatterjee. The purge revives the old question of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s relations with parliamentary dem... |
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Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. — Albert Edward Wiggam
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