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| Stepping together |
| How the upcoming G20 summit might reverse the slowdown |
| Nineteen of the world’s largest national economies and the European Union constitute what has come to be called the G20. Some idea of their importance in the global economy can be gauged by the fact that they produce almost 90 per cent of the aggrega... |
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| Special needs |
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Sir — The article, “A school for everyone” (March 17), was greatly reassuring and I must congratul ... |
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| Not a drop |
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Sir — Election time is perhaps not the right hour for talking about tea, especially Darjeeling tea ... |
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| IN AND OUT |
| It is odd that an “exit strategy” should be made up almost entirely of entrenchment. On the face of it, that is what Barack O...|
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| DIVIDED HOUSE |
| Before they are united, potential election allies usually have little in common. The story of disunity in Assam’s fledgling ‘...|
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| The idea that isn’t India |
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India seems poised to initiate another war for freedom — freedom from fanaticism. This absolutely careless chatter, which se... | Read.. |
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| Behind the invisible screen |
| Tears welled up in Bindi’s eyes. (All names have been changed.) Then they spilled over, rolling down in two straight lines on her cheeks. Someone asked her if anything was wro... |
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| Cameras not allowed |
| I have never entered a government hospital for the mentally ill. But the nearest to its kind I have entered in West Bengal is a government-run children’s home where “children ... |
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We are Giants in physical power: in a deeper than metaphorical sense, we are Titans, that strive, by heaping mountain on mountain, to conquer Heaven also.
— THOMAS CARLYLE
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