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| An educative journey |
| India has prospered, but in patches |
| I have been driving through Maharashtra, stopping by in villages. It was in the Konkan — a region I was unfamiliar with although I grew up in Poona. Being a hillbilly, I had the impression that Konkan was one long, flat, boring strip. Actually, there... |
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| Inner cities |
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Sir — Ramachandra Guha’s article, “Learning from America” (Jan 30), can only be described as half ... |
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| Smart choice |
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Sir — As the controversy over the commercial production of the genetically modified Bt brinjal cont ... |
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| IN THE GROOVE |
| There is no better leveller in politics than what, for lack of a better term, can be described as ‘the system’. Once a person...|
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| ENTRY POINT |
| In an ideal world, global citizens ought to enjoy the freedom to move as they wish, uninhibited by artificial barriers...|
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| The rule of fear |
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Fear is something that disables democratic functioning, and allows for arbitrary pronouncements by self-styled ‘potentates’ ... | Read.. |
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| The spirit of another age |
| It is ironic that Mallikarjun Mansur, the pre-eminent vocalist of the Jaipur gharana, enters his centenary at a time when India is riddled with demands for linguistic... |
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| Lessons in music and much more |
| Dipali Nag, whose busy life ended at the age of 87 on December 20, last year, set standards that most would find hard to match. She was an MA in English Literature, studied ... |
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We’re poor little lambs who’ve lost our way,/ Baa! Baa! Baa!/ We’re little black sheep who’ve gone astray,/ Baa-aa-aa!/ Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,/ Damned from here to Eternity,/ God ha’ mercy on such as we,/ Baa! Yah! Bah!
— RUDYARD KIPLING
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