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| A euphoria of hype |
| Obama is naturally elitist, and therefore naturally liberal |
| In his tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru a few days after his death in May 1964, the former British prime minister, Clement Atlee, wrote that the Indian leader “understood power and he understood poetry but what he didn’t see was where one began and the ot... |
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| STALLED GROWTH |
| Out of the economic gloom comes a ray of light in the form of the index of industrial production for September. The figures w...|
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| FALSE ENDING |
| Barack Obama believes in leading by deed and not just by word. Although he is yet to move into the White House formally, his ...|
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| Habits die hard |
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Margaret Alva, like many other politicians, was the product of a dynasty and a system of hand-me-downs. She would, like many ... | Read.. |
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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| Open window |
| Of the three periods into which Indian history is conveniently divided... |
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| Unequal music |
| Those who doubt that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction can turn to Begum Akhtar’s life... |
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| The lion in winter |
| The valley of Kashmir remained strangely insulated from the communal tension which was ripping... |
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