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| Two maritime cities |
| Calcutta and Chennai are more different than similar |
| I had occasion in recent months to spend time in Calcutta and Chennai. The structure of both is surprisingly similar. Calcutta is spread out north-to-south along the Hooghly; Chennai is similarly spread out along the Bay of Bengal... |
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| No minor matter |
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Sir — It was shocking to learn that Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minorities, was killed ... |
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| Old hands |
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Sir — In his article “Dream teams” (Feb 26), Ramachandra Guha compares the great Indian cricketers ... |
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| HISTORY LESSONS |
| The detention of a special forces regiment of the British army by rebel groups in Libya could not have been entirely unexpect...|
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| SPECIAL CASE |
| If some states in India have done better than others in economic terms, it is not entirely due to Centre-state financial rela...|
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| Life in limbo |
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The Supreme Court has been ‘reduced’ to behaving like the upright headmaster dealing with errant children at school.... | Read.. |
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| Way of the jasmine revolution |
| In the 1940s, Joseph Needham, a British academic and sinologist, together with a team of international scholars, began cataloguing China’s achievements in science and technol... |
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| All those dark alleys |
| Everything virtually remains in the realm of information technology today. The media glare, at times, is too sharp for the comfort of those who thrive in the dark alleys of th... |
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. — MARK TWAIN
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