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| An unexpected triumph |
| What the UPA’s victory means for India’s future |
| As I write this, members of the Congress party are celebrating a most unexpected victory. Before the election results, the exit polls suggested that the Congress and its allies would obtain only a slender lead over their main rivals. The unanimous p... |
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| Harsh measures |
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Sir — The news that a student of the Andal Girls’ High School died after her teacher threw a duster ... |
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| Original vision |
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Sir — In “The Singh factor” (May 17), Rudrangshu Mukherjee credits the prime minister, Manmohan Sin ... |
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| LOST PARTY |
| The Bharatiya Janata Party is mired in a contradiction. Blazoned on its flag is the ideology of Hindutva. Yet it wants to rul...|
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| AFTER THE WAR |
| It would have been impossible to bring the war in Sri Lanka to a closure without a final announcement about the fate of the T...|
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| Left on the Right |
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The recent developments in Nepal need not cause any apprehension in some or arouse hope in the others that these may pave the... | Read.. |
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| Unfair deal |
| Narayani Devi had been married for just three months when her husband died of a snake bite. Her in-laws promptly accused her of being a woman who brought ill luck and threw he... |
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| Street Legal |
| The law provides that whenever there is a vacancy in any post, the employer should “advertise” the post before selecting a candidate for it. In... |
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
— SAMUEL JOHNSON
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