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| Influencing people |
| Money speaks, as it also silences |
| It is pretty pointless to try to discover a structure of rationality in social mores. A person may be a crook and a thief and guilty of a thousand other offenses, but as long he remains successful in politics and occupies one electoral office after a... |
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| Play fair |
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Sir — There were no bidders for Pakistani players at the Indian Premier League auctions (“Cold Pak ... |
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| ALL AND SUNDRY |
| The bestowing of national awards in India is always a dodgy business. This is because, as a general rule, Indians do not poss...|
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| SUCCESS STORY |
| For Mahinda Rajapaksa, elected president of Sri Lanka for the second time with a thumping majority, the winning formula has w...|
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| A matter of Shame |
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The brouhaha over the Padma award for Sant Singh Chatwal has neither been loud enough nor emphatic about the fact that he doe... | Read.. |
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An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. — SAMUEL BUTLER
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| Doubly foreign |
| “They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,” chuckled Sir Thomas….... |
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| Far from Baker Street |
| It may be time for a different Holmes. But how different? Vithal Rajan’s Holmes of the Raj is a curious ... |
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