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| Foibles of historians |
| Marxism, whimsy and the Mughal age |
| Irfan Habib is the doyen of historians of the Mughal age. He published a book on the Mughal agrarian system 45 years ago, when most of the world’s people were not even born. He was soon appointed professor in Aligarh, which has been a formidable vant... |
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| Without basis |
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Sir — On December 11, a report in The Telegraph stated that a Mumbai police officer has “con ... |
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| False promises |
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Sir — I would like to warn the readers of The Telegraph against the unethical business pract ... |
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| Sharp contrast |
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Sir — I visit my relatives in Ranchi every Durga Puja, and with each passing year, I am more and mo ... |
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| DECLINE AND FALL |
| Declining growth is something that Indians have got painfully used to in recent months. Quarterly growth of gross domestic pr...|
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| JUST VISION |
| The extent to which inequality is fundamental to Indian society becomes shockingly clear when systemic reforms that are imper...|
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| A New Future waits |
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A severe winter has descended on Kashmir but this year the biting cold has brought a sense of warmth and a fresh ‘zing’ of ho... | Read.. |
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| Notes from a ghost town |
| Every night, at 11 pm, Moumita Pan waits in the dark with her schoolbooks for the electric light to come on. A student of Class XI, she has to race through her studies before ... |
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| Closed gates and desolation |
| There are two slogans boldly painted on the wall near the closed gates of the Dunlop factory in Sahagunj. One declares that the building, now deserted and forlorn, is India’s ... |
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We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man’s creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that our earlier ambitions faded in its glare. — T.E. LAWRENCE
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