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| Balancing gender |
| A radical scheme to help achieve a near-equal sex ratio |
| Literacy is a fashion, especially amongst women. In 1901, the proportion of Indian women who were literate was 0.6 per cent. Even amongst men, literacy was less than 10 per cent. People spent all their lives being illiterate without missing anything.... |
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Sir — The chief minister of Kerala, V.S. Achuthanandan, recently described Rahul Gandhi, the genera ... |
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| Muffled voices |
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Sir — Not long ago, Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize, was unable to ... |
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| Meant well |
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Sir — The editorial, “Meaningless” (April 17), concludes by saying that Anna Hazare “and those who ... |
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| SMALL STEPS |
| In popular and street-level parlance it is often said that, according to the Chinese wise man, Confucius, the best way to cat...|
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| THE PAST VANISHES |
| For how many Indians does the date, April 18, ring a bell? Presumably, not too many. Except for a handful of activists and th...|
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| Out of sync |
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Delhi is a strange city. With the ‘euphoria’ that accompanied the people’s search for a solution to the ‘all-pervasive ... | Read.. |
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| A suitable poster boy |
| To be or not to be a politician — that is the question which has often riddled young urban minds in Bengal during the last decade. On the one hand, many of us have been terror... |
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| More than a mirage |
| Change, the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, had once said, is the only constant. West Bengal, however, has not seen the truth in that statement for more than three ... |
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — ALBERT CAMUS
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