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| Beyond the spectacle |
| For a brief suspended hour, it was possible to forget reality |
| It is not often that the platitudinous expressions of shock and sympathy for far-away disasters are truly heart-felt. We are hardened to distant death and destruction or choose at least not to think too much about those injuries and losses of life bu... |
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| Taking sides |
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| VOTE FOR WORK |
| Psephologists in India will now have to abandon their favourite explanatory category, anti-incumbency, and replace it with th...|
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| LADIES’ TURN |
| The Bharatiya Janata Party is having poor luck with women. Two allies, both female and hungry for domination, have let go of ...|
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| Third time lucky |
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Sheila Dikshit, a third time winner and a clear Congress candidate for chief minister of Delhi, has bucked the platitudes tha... | Read.. |
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| The borderland and its zero people |
| Khukuli Khatun was a little more than 18 years old when a bullet, fired point-blank, went through her stomach and came out from the other side, killing her a few hours later. ... |
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I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
— JOHN KEATS
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