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| The best and the worst |
| Two kinds of globalization |
| At the beginning of this century, my hometown, Bangalore, became a showpiece for the advantages to India of an outward-looking economic policy. The city’s information technology industry was generating large amounts of foreign exchange by providing h... |
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| Great expectations |
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Sir — The three-fold hike in remuneration has ‘partially’ fulfilled the salary demands of our parl ... |
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| Wrong move |
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Sir — The world chess champion, Viswanathan Anand, is the pride of the nation. It is unbelievable t ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Tigers are killed for their skin and teeth by poachers. Their number is dwindling because of ... |
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| PROMISE OF EQUALITY |
| Equality is an elusive and a tough concept. Even in the abstract, as it was first posed during the era of the French Revoluti...|
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| Tagore revisited |
| Invoking Ukio (sic) Mishima this year, Samik Bandyopadhyay, mentor of Happenings’ Rabindra Utsav, stated that “Happenings are the signals for endless reconstruction, re... |
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| Exciting possibilities |
| When three stylish women in sleek evening dresses and high heels took the stage, looking the audience in the eye with an inscrutable seductiveness, one knew that the spectator... |
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| Charm and clarity |
| Rani presented Ki Ragini Baajaale, a rare harmony of Rabindrasangeet by Shreya Guhathakurta and the associated ragas by... |
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| How to be a little less unjust |
| There is surely something grossly amiss in this acclaimed theatre of democracy when a handful of people get to decide how much or how little the hungry should eat at what pric... |
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I’m Henery the Eighth, I am!/ Henery the Eighth, I am, I am!/ I got married to the widow next door,/ She’s been married seven times before./ Every one was a Henery,/ She wouldn’t have a Willie or a Sam./ I’m her eighth old man named Henery/ I’m Henery the Eighth, I am! — FRED MURRAY
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