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| Delusions of wealth |
| The Commonwealth Games will be a reality check for India |
| The belief that a sporting event can be deftly packaged to showcase national pride has a somewhat dubious history. It was Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich that first chose to capitalize on the 1936 Berlin Olympics to proclaim the reality of a reinvigorated... |
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| Enemy state |
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Sir — The Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi, may well be apprehensive about the outcome of the ... |
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| A QUIET INDIAN |
| In spite of its long history of idol worship, India is a country of unrecognized icons. This statement is particularly true o...|
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| SLOW LEARNERS |
| The ways of the bureaucracy in India can be an investor’s nightmare. The Posco project in Orissa may have been delayed by peo...|
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| India’s Untold stories |
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To turn away from the horror stories that we see on television, I decided to watch a six-hour documentary film made by a perc... | Read.. |
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The cure for this ill is not to sit still,/ Or frowst with a book by the fire;/ But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,/ And dig till you gently perspire. — RUDYARD KIPLING
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| Stuck in time |
| It is good that Sudhir Kakar clarified one of his reasons for writing this book during its... |
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