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| Wishes are not horses |
| False starts and grievous setbacks |
| Always take media headlines with a pinch of salt. For the past few weeks, newspapers and television channels have been blaring out a wisdom evidently very dear to their heart: this year’s Lok Sabha election, in their judgment, marks a watershed. The ... |
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| Out too soon |
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Sir — Team India’s World Cup honeymoon under its captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, came to an abrupt e ... |
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| For a dignified life |
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Sir — In “Not up to a challenge” (June 15), S.L. Rao has rightly concluded that there is nothing ne ... |
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| GOVERN OR GO |
| Niccolò Machiavelli, the master of the art of statecraft, wrote in the 16th century that a prince “ought to be both feared an...|
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| WORDS OF HOPE |
| A middle-aged woman will now be able to see her grandson wed because she had not been afraid of cancer. A young man can now d...|
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| A Land on Fire |
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Iran is exploding, seething with anger as the sharp divide between the conservatives and those looking for freedom of thought... | Read.. |
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My brain sang/ A rhythm I never dreamt to sing,/ “I will be gay and laugh and sing,/ He is going away”.
— HILDA DOOLITTLE
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| Outside vision |
| Alive and disturbing, Rabindranath Tagore’s eyes look directly at the viewe... |
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| Saga of silence |
| Dear unwary reader, if you were reading Marilynne Robinson for the first time, please do not ... |
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