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| Towards uncertainty |
| The free market paradigm: monetary or fiscal policies? |
| There are few doctrines that stand out as boldly in economics textbooks as the one advocating competitive markets (or laissez faire systems) as the best possible means for allocating economic resources. Tightly stated by academics, the doctrin... |
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| Shame and silence |
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Sir — It is a matter of shame that the former chief minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh, was ... |
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| Damp flames |
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Sir — The fact that Godfrey Phillips India Limited, the famous cigarette manufacturing company, is ... |
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| SMALL MOVE |
| While the world waited for it to move its fist, Pakistan has moved its finger. Almost a week after the Mumbai siege, followed...|
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| LADY IN THE WINGS |
| The future of Mayavati, the mercurial chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, probably lies in the details of the election results o...|
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| Home Thought From Abroad |
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Mumbai’s attacks are big news here. Xinhua, the official news agency, had at least three reporters covering the attacks, so t... | Read.. |
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| The brutal and the noble |
| It was with shock that the parents of a little girl going to one of Calcutta’s prestigious schools approached the school authorities three years ago, before they went to the p... |
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| For a few inches of rattan |
| In Prasanna gurumashai’s pathshala in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Pather Panchali, the cane made up for the absence of most other teaching aids, and pa... |
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| Going offbeat |
| Two children were caught fighting by a teacher at the end of a long workday. His first instinct was to thump the little ones on their heads. Instead, he sternly asked them to ... |
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
— OSCAR WILDE
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