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| Houses of cards |
| The strength of civic mythologies |
| As the Financial Times recently observed, Britain’s State religion is house prices. We worship them. More than any other factor, the rise in the value of property accounted for the feel-good years of the Blair regime. A house became not simply... |
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| Behind the scene |
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Sir — Ryan Chakravarty and Amitabh Sharma deserve to be lauded for their valiant role in flushing o ... |
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| Lesson not learnt |
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Sir — While a great hue and cry has been raised over the death of an eight-year-old school girl, af ... |
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| Water everywhere |
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Sir — I am a resident of C.V. Raman Sarani in Siliguri. In a country where thousands of people perp ... |
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| A PLACE IN THE SHADE |
| Bad money drives out bad money. Manmohan Singh, a distinguished economist, might think that The Telegraph is misquotin...|
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The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed when absolutely necessary.
— HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
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