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| Walls between minds |
| The German miracle is a miracle of the market economy |
| It is 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cataclysmic event that changed the face of Europe, and 50 years since I first went to Germany. I studied in Kiel in the early 1960s; the scars of defeat and division were then still etched on the ... |
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| Distant dream |
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Sir — In the article, “Climate change” (Oct 26), Ashok Mitra has rightly condemned the growing ... |
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| Poetic truths |
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Sir — Arundhati Roy, the social activist and writer, has protested against the government offensive ... |
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| Here and there |
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Sir — It is good to know that the Calcutta High Court has given the government a fortnight to come ... |
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| BLACK DIAMOND |
| Ever since the dawn of the modern era, it has been somewhat taken for granted that the natural resources of the earth are...|
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| GOING HOME |
| Sri Lanka recently released more than 41,000 of the internally displaced persons from one of its relief camps in the north...|
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| Keep the house in order |
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The Bharatiya Janata Party continues to blot its book with public squabbles that do it no good, particularly after its ... | Read.. |
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| Into combat at full tilt |
| The impression during the recent Conservative Party conference was that we were already in electioneering mode with the Conservatives barrelling into combat at full tilt.... |
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| WONDER YEARS |
| Way back in 1962, travelling with my family from London, the train stopped for a while at a somewhat deserted station called Cambridge — the land of Newton, Rutherford ... |
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The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the only function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece. No other task is of any consequence.
— CYRIL VERNON CONNOLLY
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