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| The road to Damascus |
| International tutelage and the making of liberal states |
| The attitude of Western states, led by the United States of America, to recent events in Syria is eerily reminiscent of the build-up to the second Iraq War of 2003 and the US-led invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The media frenzy about deaths, demon... |
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| New look |
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Sir — The new chief minister’s top priority in the education sector seems to be to make Presidency ... |
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| Equal value |
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Sir — The insightful article by Ashok Mitra, “More equal than most” (July 1), is a fitting retort t ... |
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| GUNS DOWN |
| Three tribal villages were reportedly set ablaze in Chhattisgarh in March. That little was heard of the aftermath until the S...|
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| WARPED VISION |
| Plans to reduce pollution in Calcutta usually take their own sweet time to materialize. While most of India switched to liqui...|
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| Towards a bleak future |
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There’s an angry mood sweeping across the country, and it’s not linked with the word, jasmine. Across classes and ages, peopl... | Read.. |
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| A home called school |
| I sat with a group of village women under a tree in the compound of a government primary school in Madiyahu... |
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| Heavy duty |
| Exactly four decades ago, the president of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, had been critical of Indira Gandhi signing the Indo-USSR treaty. When she became the pr... |
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War has three handmaidens ever waiting on her, Fire, Blood, and Famine, and I have chosen the meekest maid of the three.— HENRY V
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