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| Principle of exclusion |
| Is solidarity with the Gazans same as solidarity with Hamas? |
| As Israel’s monstrous destruction of Gaza grinds on, Hamas becomes, by bloody default, the face of Palestinian resistance. Mahmoud Abbas, nominally the president of the Palestinian Authority, and the party he leads, Fatah, have begun to seem, fairly ... |
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| Left without choice |
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Sir — The founder-president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Shibu Soren, took over as the chief mini ... |
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| Equal opportunity |
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Sir — Indian doctors have expressed concerns over the possibility that the government might soon al ... |
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| Wishful thinking |
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Sir — As the article, “Enter the laptop kids” (Jan 12), points out, the global education experiment ... |
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| JUST A FRONT |
| Hope springs eternal in the politician’s breast. As the Lok Sabha elections loom closer, rapid calculations and swift oscilla...|
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| MIXED REPORT |
| Nowhere are quantity and quality more problematically entwined than in the sphere of education. How does a nation of India’s ...|
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| No time for peace |
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“Israel is not going to show restraint,” foreign minister Tzipi Livni told The Washington Post after the United States... | Read.. |
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| A greener world, between the covers |
| In West Bengal, bravado and boorishness preside over the business of living and learning. It is evident, by this time, that the chief minister and his cohorts would happily ig... |
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| Et in Arcadia ego |
| When the toilet-trained Calcuttan comes upon a man peeing against a wall, he exclaims, “Dekhli? Konorokom civic sense nei! (Did you see? No civic sense at all!)”... |
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| Not in but out |
| For years, I watched a woman coming home from work, spitting with finality and satisfaction just before her doorstep as she entered. She would have created a gigantic blancman... |
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
— LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
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