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| The Paulson plan |
| Minimizing fluctuations in the financial markets is necessary |
| The month of September has been quite extraordinary for the United States of America’s economy and more particularly for its financial system. In less than a week, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers — iconic institutions of the American financial syst... |
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| Killer instinct |
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Sir — The editorial, “Just to kill” (Sept 15), is full of the usual sense of déjà vu and hel ... |
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| Not quite |
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Sir — In the article, “Made in China” (Sept 18), Neha Sahay says, “Of course food-safety officials ... |
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| BLOCK OR BURY |
| A sigh of relief rather than a note of triumphalism is the adequate response to the Left Front’s decision to issue a key lice...|
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| TOGETHER AGAIN |
| It has not been smooth, but it has happened. Three years after forming his own breakaway party, the Asom Gana Parishad (Praga...|
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| Right to Murder |
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Another explosion in Delhi. Another set of speculative responses. Another day of repetitive media coverage with the same face... | Read.. |
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| Songs without words |
| For 75 years now, Bengalis have woken up once every 365 days at the ungodly hour of 4 am, turned on their radios and listened to stotras and songs marking the beginning... |
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| For the love of lost sounds |
| Of all the useful, meaningful and beautiful things that human beings make, sound is the most perishable. The spoken word, song and music enact their dying fall even as they co... |
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
— NANCY MITFORD
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