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| A different initiative |
| India need not be overeager in opening up to a flawed system |
| Here is a quiz on American capitalism. Question: What should a private bank do when it has accumulated $42 billion in losses and is desperately looking for a buyer who will assume those losses?... |
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| Faith on sale |
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Sir — In his article, “An alien possession”, (Oct 9), Mukul Kesavan displays an irrational antago ... |
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Sir — More than 40 years ago, I had to make a momentous choice — to change my Bengali surname to a ... |
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| LAND’S END |
| All’s fair in love and war, Mayavati would be likely to agree, referring, of course, to the love for her own position and the...|
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| FEAR OF FLYING |
| One of the great boons of liberalization has been the gift of choice. Time was when weary airline travellers were forced to b...|
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| Myriad Mistakes |
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Britain’s giant supermarket group, Tesco, is planning to move, as a wholesaler, into India. If Indian rivals think they’ve no... | Read.. |
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| Knot
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| When Safura Sheikh, 27, announced that she wanted a few clauses inserted into her nikahnama (marriage contract), her elders gaped incredulously at her. They could not b... |
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| Going too far |
| A man who was accused of murder had an eyewitness vouching for his attempt at self-defence. During cross examination, the witness said that the deceased, a karate expert, ha... |
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. — R.D. LAING
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