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| Austerity bites |
| Christmas in the land of the imperial complainers |
| We have reached the end of another year and ’tis the season to be jolly — in theory, at least. The talent shows have had their glittering finals and produced their crop of instant new stars, the vicissitudes of whose further lives will plaster the pa... |
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| Futile battles |
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Sir — The death of Swapan Koley, a student of commerce, and the severe damage to the eye of another ... |
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| ONION SOUP |
| Prices of onions have risen to a point where the impact risks causing the demise of this government. In the last 30 years of...|
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| LAST THROES |
| No one would have worried if the Left Front kept digging its own grave ever deeper when faced with the possibility of defeat....|
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| There’s a lot in a name |
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An identity card is an imperative here, issued by the State, and to be carried at all times. This has been the rule since Mao... | Read.. |
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| Another gift from the Magi |
| On that cold December night, the Magi had carried with them gold, myrrh and frankincense as gifts for the infant Jesus. Had Maggi been an invention of the Biblical times, I am... |
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| Pleasure and business |
| I have an amorous relationship with Maggi noodles for several reasons, one of them being that the brand is almost the same age as I am. It was launched in 1984, a year after m... |
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| Taste buddies |
| On a fine afternoon, on my way to office, I sat with utmost patience in a stationary autorickshaw whose driver simply refused to get started in spite of having got his quota o... |
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So I wait for you like a lonely house/ Till you will see me again and live in me./ Till then my windows ache. — PABLO NERUDA
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