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| Misappropriation galore |
| A review of the government’s most vaunted social services |
| The World Bank was poor India’s rich aunt for many decades. Though her wealth has become less impressive as India has prospered, it is not uncommon for people in the Indian government to call her up and ask her to pick up the bill for something they ... |
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| Forward march |
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Sir — In his article, “Advice to communists” (May 24), Prabhat Patnaik thus outlines the position o ... |
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| Erratum |
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The first sentence of the fifth paragraph in “The bane of Bengali life” (May 28) by Sunanda K. Datt ... |
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| POOR LINE |
| According to the new definition of poverty, based on the recommendations of the Suresh Tendulkar committee, a family of five ...|
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| FRIEND IN DEED |
| The surprise visit of Hillary Clinton to Pakistan has, unsurprisingly, lent itself to two widely varying interpretations. The...|
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| Justice under a cloud |
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This business of denying bail to people suspected of having indulged in fraud and of breaking the laws of this land before th... | Read.. |
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| Free from the red coils that bind |
| At a press conference in March this year, journalists stumbled upon a contemplative Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee reflecting on the Left Front’s growing list of ‘errors’. Of the man... |
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| Fish, football and communism |
| At some point in the last 34 years, West Bengal became synonymous with the Left Front, especially with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The hammer-and-sickle was etched... |
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
— ALLEN GINSBERG
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