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| Out of uniform |
| A colossal misjudgment in the ministry of external affairs |
| When General Pervez Musharraf was the unchallenged ruler of Pakistan, and New Delhi was touting democracy as its supreme asset on the global stage, not known outside the ministry of external affairs, a furious tussle was taking place within this mini... |
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| HARD TIME |
| With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the venerable investment bank, and the takeover of Merrill Lynch, the largest broking...|
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| NEW SPREAD |
| Of the many pretexts for violence, illegal conversion is one of the strangest. Even before the attacks of Hindu fundamentalis...|
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| There’s a Price on the Head |
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The newspaper was dated September 3rd, a day of meaning to any Briton my age: the one in 1939 when Britain (and thus its Indi... | Read.. |
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| STREET LEGAL |
| When a daily wage earner failed to repay a debt, a court in Andhra Pradesh decreed that he had to repay the amount. The man failed to do so. Finding that he owned a house, t... |
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| Age of consent |
| When 35-year-old Reshma Khan went for surgery for a pancreatic tumour in June this year, little did she know that she would return without a vital organ. Operated at a leading... |
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Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul,/ And sings the tune without the words,/ And never stops at all.
— EMILY DICKINSON
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