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| Glowing self-assessment |
| Only in India are the incorrectly born poor denied benefits |
| Ms Mayavatiji, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, is a unilingual extremist; she never speaks a word but in Hindi. She outdoes even Narendra Modi, who has a good turn of phrase in Gujarati, and who managed some broken English in the last Vibrant... |
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Sir — The colour-changing capability of the former mayor, Subrata Mukherjee, will put a chameleon t ... |
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| Gone awry |
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Sir — I am a resident of Bakultala Lane in Kasba. Just before my house, there is a big pond that ha ... |
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| STEEP CLIMB |
| Redrawing boundaries of Indian states is becoming a complicated issue. At the time of the reorganization of the states in 196...|
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| COP OUT |
| The Abhisit Vejjajiva government in Thailand has finally ceded to the Red Shirt protesters the moral high ground it had been ...|
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The ruling United Progressive Alliance is in the midst of a Mad Hatter’s scorching summer tea party, an ‘ouster’ party. All f... | Read.. |
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| The humble masterpiece that stuck on |
| Ickylickystick (the word is from Joyce) they are not, and yet they have managed to stick around after their own fashion. They come, most commonly, in the form of three-inch sq... |
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| Banquets, blank slates and Barbara |
| What is common among the following: the sentence, “King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk”, the medieval/ Renaissance emblem of the death’s head with the motto, “Memento Mori... |
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| Forgotten pleasure |
| If I had lived and died in ancient Greece, I would have entered the Underworld and faced two rivers that flow from Hades. I would be asked to make a choice. If I drank from th... |
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.
— NANCY MITFORD
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