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| What four states say |
| The assembly elections cannot be considered a semi-final |
| The term “semi-final election” was first heard in Bharatiya Janata Party circles prior to the 1991 general elections. Many party strategists then argued that the expansion of the party’s base after Ayodhya would set the stage for a final push in 1996... |
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| Perform or perish |
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| UNUSUAL MODEL |
| Real change in the practice of democracy may come quietly, and quietness was one of the keywords of the assembly elections he...|
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| THE PLOT THICKENS |
| It would have looked absurd had democracy made an eerily quiet return to Bangladesh. With the army-backed caretaker governmen...|
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| Fiddling on the Roof |
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A farcical political play, a theatre of the absurd, is being forced upon us —the wide-eyed and curious spectators — as the c... | Read.. |
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I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife or a complete writer: I must combine a little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.
— SYLVIA PLATH
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| Ghost valley |
| Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night is an extraordinary book of a Kashmir in extraordinary times.... |
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