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| Shadows in the valley |
| Kashmir requires original thinking and innovative solutions |
| Newspapers have reported azadi protests cascading across the Kashmir Valley for the past weeks, with each rally more strident than the last. The dispute over land transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board has turned into a crisis over the future of Kashmir. In the words of one demonstrator: “We are not pro-Pakistan, we are for independence, but those supporters of Pakistan are... |
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| The road to hell |
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Sir — The Calcutta Municipal Corporation does not spare a chance to waste the taxpayers’ money on w ... |
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| INDIRECT POWER |
| India is a democracy of a specific kind. It is an indirect democracy. The other form of democracy, the direct kind, in which ...|
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| PATCHING UP |
| When it is a question of winning votes, serious thinking about what is best for the people takes a backseat. The Rajinder Sac...|
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| A Brave New Nepal |
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Since the time he assumed office, Pushpa Kumar Dahal or Prachanda had kept the government and the Opposition in India wonderi... | Read.. |
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| Murder,
he wrote |
| Sarmishtha Shat was strangled to death at her in-laws’ house in Hooghly on 28 January, 2007. Her post-mortem report, however, indicated that she had committed suicide. Further... |
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| Right practice |
| An individual who took the examination for recruitment as sub-inspector wanted to scrutinise his answer script later as he smelt corruption in the procedure. The Gauhati Hig... |
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I think that I shall never see/ A billboard lovely as a tree./ Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,/ I’ll never see a tree at all.
— OGDEN NASH
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