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CIMA Gallary
 
Promise of the present
The day before Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America, I asked a class of post-graduate students if they thought an Obama win (were it to happen) would amount to a historically significant event, a landmark of sor...  | Read.. 
 
Letters to the Editor
Farewell to a legend
Sir — Only the timing of Anil Kumble’s retirement —the last day of the Delhi Test — came as a surpr ...  | Read.. 
 
EDITORIAL
FAMOUS VICTORY
In 1861, a man made the arduous journey from the log cabin to the White House. In 2008, with the victory of Barack Obama, it ...| Read.. 
 
NATIONAL RIVER
Another new question for the GK class: “What is the national river of India, children?” “The Ganga!” the class will pipe back...| Read.. 
 
FIFTH COLUMN
 
A Land washed away
The Misings, a tribal community with a population of less than ten lakhs, are scattered in eight riparian districts of Assam....  | Read.. 
OPED
A Great Leap into the unknown, or a false step?
To sceptics, it may end up being China’s very own Great October Counter-Revolution. Or the Great Leap Backward. For the ruling communists, it is the next big thing in China af...  | Read.. 
 
SCRIPSI
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
 
 
 
 
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