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| In lieu of farm loans |
| The government’s fixation with farmers |
| The finance minister’s farm loan waiver has been seen as a blatant attempt to buy votes; and so it is. He did not buy the votes with his own money, but the taxpayer’s. But there was another reason for the loan waiver: it was meant to rescue banks tha... |
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| Crushed out |
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| Mean streets |
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Sir — On September 27, a few days before the Puja and Eid festivities, a lady friend of mine was gr ... |
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| BURNING ISSUE |
| There is nothing sudden about the violence that has overtaken two districts of Assam and is spilling over into a third, altho...|
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| CALLING A SAINT |
| The cultural diversity of India has always been the cause of celebration. It is from this tradition of pluralism that the bes...|
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| A Nation in Turmoil |
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A patient and sincere Ratan Tata went through the most mindless shenanigans played out by the political parties of West Benga... | Read.. |
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| More than just a brick in the wall |
| In school after school, year after year, millennium after millennium, chief guests come and dutifully remind their young audience that “the future of this great country lies in your hands”.... |
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| Against a sea of troubles |
| “Disaffection”, remarked the commander-in-chief of the British army in India on August 14, 1875, “is the greatest evil we have to guard against”. The British constantly feared... |
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Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.
— KATHERINE MANSFIELD
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