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| Politicians in cassock |
| Activists are forcing a minority mindset on Christians in India |
| On October 24, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India did something unusual and crass: it chose to make a public spectacle of the monstrous rape and humiliation of Sister Meena Lalita Barwa from Divyajyoti Pastoral Centre in Orissa’s Kandhamal dis... |
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| Major threat |
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Sir — Until the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur appeared on front pages of national dailies, t ... |
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| DIVIDED STATE |
| Before the law against rape was reformed, complaints of rape were regarded sceptically if no one had heard the victim scream....|
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| SOUND AND FURY |
| At any other time of the year, except the so-called ‘festive’ season, law-abiding Calcuttans, even with a modicum of civic se...|
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| Bitter lessons on offer |
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Rahul Gandhi was making a valid point about the general condition of the school system and of higher education that tends to ... | Read.. |
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From all the rest I single out you.../ You are to die — let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,/ I am exact and merciless, but I love you — there is no escape for you.
— WALT WHITMAN
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| Swamiesque |
| This is a difficult book about difficult, often extreme, lives. But its wide .. |
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| Agony aunt |
| Heidi Holland met Robert Mugabe for the first time in 1975, when he came to supper at... |
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