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| Dream of a university |
| Recognizing and rewarding the best cannot be an easy task |
| The recently submitted Yash Pal committee report on higher education in India begins with a moving idea — the Idea of a University. This is so sublimely worded that I cannot resist the temptation of reproducing it in toto: “A university is a p... |
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| Shut out |
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Sir — Although political leaders claim that a bandh is their last resort to register protest ... |
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| Money matters |
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Sir — An advertisement by a financial company shows a girl putting a coin on the railway tracks to ... |
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| LONG TERM FOCUS |
| It is not surprising that apprehensions about the United States of America continue to inform sections of public opinion in I...|
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| FRISK THEM ALL |
| Strange fits of passion have erupted in Parliament over the frisking of a former president of India by an American airline fl...|
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| Hope amidst turmoil |
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The total eclipse drove out Urumqi from TV screens after two weeks of continuous coverage of the violence there. For an India... | Read.. |
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| Pick and choose your future |
| The almost simple process where a child, after finishing school, would acquire a college education seems to have become longer. Interventions have crept into this system at a ... |
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| Face-off |
| During my schooldays, not so long ago, the fear of failure in examinations was a very real one. It controlled my life and shaped ... |
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The trees along this city street,/ Save for the traffic and the trains,/ Would make a sound as thin and sweet/ As trees in country lanes.
— EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
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