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| India’s hate industry |
| Can some duties of governments be made enforceable by law? |
| Maqbool Fida Husain, the most famous and interesting Indian artist of my generation, died far from our shores in London last week. That was not his choice. He was under threat from murderous Hindutwits, and to its everlasting shame, the government of... |
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| Policy matters |
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Sir — I was struck with wonder on reading the report, “Ordinance ‘takes back’ Tata land” (June 10). ... |
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| Nefarious designs |
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Sir — The nation is obsessed with the subject of corruption. But such a preoccupation often results ... |
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| STAYING ON |
| Some fundamental principles do not seem to apply to communist parties. In a democratic party anywhere, the leader cannot esca...|
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| SMALL GAINS |
| Politics is a strange game. Both the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Congress — its ally in Tamil Nadu and at the Centre — ...|
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| The death of faith |
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Do all babas believe that they are above the law because they have declared themselves to be religious leaders? We hav... | Read.. |
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| The heart of the matter |
| An euphoric chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, announced that “the Darjeeling problem has been solved”. The statement merely underlines the new chief minister’s ... |
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| FINDING NEVERLAND |
| I wondered why I felt so numb when my car left behind the dazzling, sun-baked plains at last and entered the shadow lands of mist as it made its way to Darjeeling ... |
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Then, rising with Aurora’s light/ The Muse invoked, sit down to write;/ Blot out, correct, insert, refine,/ Enlarge, diminish, interline.
— JONATHAN SWIFT
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