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| Closing time |
| Ajantha Mendis is a star rather than a comet |
| I have followed India’s Test match fortunes for 45 years and not once in that time had the Indian cricket team been devastated by a slow bowler. Just before the Indian tour of Sri Lanka began, India was soundly beaten by Sri Lanka in the finals of th... |
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| Not granted |
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Sir — In “Inflation and morals” (Aug 18), Ashok Mitra writes that the votaries of free market econo ... |
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| Golden boy |
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Sir — The Beijing Olympics will be remembered for Michael Phelps and his extraordinary feat (“Eight ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The decision to replace giant goal-post type billboards with single-pole ones to reduce encro ... |
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| INTO THE GLOOM |
| Greater curse hath no race than the one committed to destroy its homeland. Witness Bengalis and the benighted state of West B...|
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| POOR SHOW |
| For Jharkhand, stability has always seemed peculiarly elusive. It is not enough that the state was born out of a long, blood-...|
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| The Girl With Crooked Teeth |
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Actually, the term “crooked teeth” has not been used by any Chinese; in fact, no disparaging remark has yet been made in publ... | Read.. |
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| Much power and little glory |
| Thanks to Abhinav Bindra, many Indians have witnessed a day they had thought they never would in their lifetime — a day when India won an individual Olympic gold medal. Sushil... |
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| Where merit comes last |
| While the country of one billion is in celebration mode, the people of Northeast India are feeling left out and wronged. Manipur’s L. Monika Devi, a medal hope for India in we... |
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.— CHARLES LAMB
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