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| Peace and its debris |
| How Obama blew his chance to make a course correction |
| In their more reflective moments in the White House residence, the East Wing, Barack and Michelle Obama must have considered the meaning of the messages they received this month from Copenhagen and Oslo. The message that was conveyed by the Nobel com... |
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| Forgotten stars |
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Sir — P.T. Usha, the sprint queen, reportedly burst into tears in front of the media and alleged th ... |
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| Old problem |
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Sir — Ragging is now very much a trend among senior students in colleges. They think it is their ri ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — I was surprised to read about a reality show where celebrity couples try to play parents to t ... |
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| COMMON CAUSE |
| Running a government is very different from running a political party. Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Part...|
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| FACE IT |
| It is obscenely evasive or delusional of successive governments in India not to be able to make up their official minds, for ...|
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| With the Pedants |
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I wrote two weeks ago that the choice of the right preposition was one mark of idiomatic English. I’ve seen ample... | Read.. |
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| Legal FAQs |
| Q: My mother who was a postal family pensioner died on 27th July, 2009. Being her sole heir I applied for her pension for the period 1st-27th July, 2009, 60 per cent arrears a... |
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| All sound and fury
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| How many times have you watched Sholay on TV, and hummed Main nachungi along with Hema Malini? You remember the song, but do you recall the channel you saw the f... |
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There once was a brainy baboon/ Who always breathed down a bassoon,/ For he said, “It appears / That in billions of years/ I shall certainly hit on a tune.” — EZRA POUND
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