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| A new brand driver |
| The Incredible India campaign has gone to waste |
| We Indians implicitly believe in India’s great past. Recently, that past has been given a statistical underpinning by Angus Maddison. To celebrate the beginning of the 21st century, Maddison wrote a book called The World Economy: A Millennial ... |
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| Unreal city |
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Sir — I am amused every time I enter into a debate with ardent Calcuttans about the origin of the n ... |
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| ONLY APPEAL |
| Even an obvious statement can acquire a salience if it is uttered on a special occasion. That political parties in West Bengal...|
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| STEEP CLIMB |
| It need not be a bad policy to take one step forward and two steps back. The political crisis in Andhra Pradesh should be a...|
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| Bits and Pieces |
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With the government at the Centre having buckled to the ‘fast-unto-death’ pressure or blackmail, call it what you may, the ... | Read.. |
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| Letter, spirit and persons |
| One’s thoughts must necessarily have a language that is tangible, organic and perhaps a combination of the languages of the thinker. Since the act of thinking precedes express... |
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| By the throat |
| Languages are persons. Or at least, they have personalities, even characters, that may be pleasing, rough, transparent, tricky, furtive, sunny, bleak, manipulative, pliant... |
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| Tongues in the dark |
| Is bilingualism a kind of bisexuality as well? Are our English-speaking erotic personalities different from our vernacular ones? To what extent are sexual identities linguisti... |
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,/ And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.’
— RUDYARD KIPLING
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