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| Surprisingly good news |
| India’s growth is not falling, although it is not as high as before |
| If there is a crisis, there should be economics to deal with it; what use are economists if they are not around to help out when things get bad? And it is not enough to have economics. There was plenty of economics in 1929. As output and employment p... |
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| True spirit |
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Sir — The editorial, “No objection” (Sept 15), points out the miserable state of affairs prevailing ... |
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| POOR COUNT |
| To help the poor, there must be one agreed way of identifying them first. If perceptions differ regarding who is poor and, th...|
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| ALL ABOUT EVE |
| The Roman Catholic Church in India is standing on the threshold of a potentially revolutionary change. This is evident from t...|
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| Humour in hard times |
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The political class in India has lost its sense of humour. Recently, when one of its breed, a new recruit and therefore a nor... | Read.. |
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| A festival uniquely its own |
| My friend Daniel has memories strangely similar to mine of Durga Puja in school — of not doing much. While Daniel would spend time with his family, catching a movie or making ... |
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| Thou shall not have fun |
| As a child born in the mid-Sixties and growing up in Calcutta in an upper-middle-class Brahmo joint family, I was often faced with a puzzling contradiction. How could the funn... |
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| Feelings and flight |
| A few years back, we were escaping to Rishap in Darjeeling district during the Pujas when we were waylaid by a group of gaily-dressed revellers at a misty mountain bend. The m... |
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
— ALBERT EINSTEIN
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