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| The plunder economy |
| The poor may be vulnerable, but they do not lack intelligence |
| One lives to learn — or unlearn. The working head of what passes for this country’s Planning Commission is unambiguous about it. One important measure to fight inflation, he believes, is to raise prices. That is to say, to stop prices from rising, yo... |
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| Something fishy |
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| It pours |
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| SUBNORMAL |
| There is only one direction in which Afghanistan seems to be heading — from bad to worse. If the attack on the Intercontinent...|
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| NOT NORMAL |
| It is bleakly ironic, if not ethically dubious, to praise a city for its fabled resilience, hours after it was devastated by ...|
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| A damp squib again |
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And they have blown it yet again. A damp squib rejig, nothing that could even remotely be called a reshuffle. This cabinet, g... | Read.. |
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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he’s more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.— WALTER DE LA MARE
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| Like home |
| It is 1838, the year of the storm. The Ibis, the ship carrying indentured labourers from Sea of Poppies , ... |
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| In brief |
| Dalit theology in the twenty-first century: discordant voices, discerning... |
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