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| Near the tipping point |
| India must confront the dangers of being hyper-populated |
| Ghulam Nabi Azad’s observation on India’s population growth was a warning that was long overdue. Ever since Sanjay Gandhi’s misguided, hugely controversial and unpopular birth-control excesses of 1975-77, birth and population control in our over-pop... |
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| Death to life |
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Sir — The right to live with dignity is enshrined in the Constitution. That said, if a person opts ... |
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| Voice of concern |
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Sir — The Marxists’ distaste for impartial views is well known. Hence, the leftists’ criticism of B ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The Unique Identification Authority of India, with Nandan Nilekani at its head, is set to pro ... |
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| DISTANT THUNDER |
| When the prime minister of India takes the unprecedented step of attending a meeting of all the chief secretaries of the vari...|
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| EIGHT MONKEYS |
| Everything is political — even little monkeys. The idea of a zoo feels distinctly archaic these days, giving off more than a ...|
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| Happy Days for Veterans |
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The chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, was present at the Patna airport to receive George Fernandes. He escorted his onet... | Read.. |
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| STREET LEGAL |
| A person riding a cycle was hit by a tractor and died. The legal representatives of the victim claimed compensation from the owner of the tractor before the Motor Accidents ... |
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| Love thy neighbour |
| Last October, Pawan Kumar of Nalanda district, Bihar, left for Mumbai to appear for a railway recruitment exam. That was the last time his father, a poor farmer, saw his son a... |
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. — VIRGINIA WOOLF
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