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| The great depression |
| Questions raised in the Thirties have come alive again |
| The world depression of 1929, which lingered on into the 1930s, is the last great depression of the sort that had been common in the 19th century. John Maynard Keynes devised a solution for depressions in his General Theory in 1936 — an increa... |
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| Nothing new |
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Sir — One should heartily congratulate Ashok Mitra for boldly denouncing the Indian version of Joan ... |
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| Messed up |
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Sir — Those of us who work in Sector V have to undertake a perilous journey every day. The ordeal s ... |
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| FOE OF FREEDOM |
| Communists are congenitally against freedom of the press and against the free flow of information. They believe that informat...|
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| UNDER A CLOUD |
| From cheering vuvuzelas to murderous violence, the scene in South Africa has radically changed in a few weeks’ time. Whatever...|
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| From denial to decay |
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The after-effects of an over-regulated and stifling command economy that India had to operate within for 40-odd years, after ... | Read.. |
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| Use and abuse of suffering |
| In the last week of August, a court in Darmstadt, Germany, ordered Nadja Benaissa, a half-Moroccan, HIV-positive popstar, to 300 hours of community service. Nadja received a s... |
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| Reason not the need |
| Children who run away from home to make their own lives on the street are heady company. Toughened by poverty and violence, they see — and consciously project — their lives as... |
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| True or false? |
| ‘I do not want to think about it’ is an oft-heard phrase. In societies where silence is accepted, and even encouraged, as a way of dealing with trying circumstances, attemptin... |
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills./ It is not the effort nor the failure tires./ The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
— SIR WILLIAM EMPSON
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