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| Effervescent idealist |
| The dream of an intellectual marketplace |
| Encomia are in order for old men who die: the less the survivors know about them, the more fulsome the encomia. This is the case with K. N. Raj, who died last week. It is 40 years since he left Delhi, and 25 years since he stopped practising economic... |
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| Terror returns |
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| COMMON ERROR |
| No reform can be effected by itself, especially if it is located midway in a system. So when thinking up the single college e...|
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| HOT AIR |
| The verbal assault on Iran launched by Hillary Clinton on her visit to Saudi Arabia indicates that the Obama administration i...|
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| THAT TIME OF YEAR |
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| Caught in a time warp |
| In a small room in the bazar area of Dubrajpur, some men gather every evening for a chat over tea. Their discussions range from the dismal state of business in their to... |
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| More than decoration |
| There is something in the air of Dubrajpur that seems to make artists of its young women. Perhaps the strange landscape, where the twisted, ancient rocks of the Mama-Bhagne hi... |
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
— IVAN ILLICH
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