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| Raining on the Games |
| Delhi in preparation embodies the arrogance of the ruling elite |
| We are past the first week of September and it is still raining in Delhi. After years of living with climate (hot and sunny for nine months and then cold and smoggy for three), this year we’ve had weather. There’s green scum growing on brick, every o... |
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| Objection overruled |
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Sir — It is difficult to agree with Somnath Chatterjee’s observations that the Supreme Court’s orde ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The finance minister’s decision to remove sops for women taxpayers from the simplified direct ... |
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| FOE IN DEED |
| Scratch the surface and all sorts of unseemly things crawl out. The properties of those who left for Pakistan after its war w...|
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| POWER PUZZLE |
| India’s interest in the political future of Australia is understandable. In recent years, Indian nationals working or studyin...|
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| Public secret |
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Ranil Wickremesinghe was not on a holiday in India. In Chennai this month, he sought Indian assistance for agriculture in nor... | Read.. |
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| The healing touch |
| Significant developments are visible in Bangladesh that could leave their imprint on the nature of the polity and on its future. Landmark judgments from the courts and decisions ... |
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| Six yards of grace and elegance |
| Ogaan, an exclusive, expensive designer store in south Calcutta has recently morphed into, well, another exclusive, expensive designer store — the Sabyasachi Mukherjee store. ... |
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost/ Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. — EDWARD THOMAS
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