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| No longer a picnic |
| In developing countries, the food crisis is most important |
| Any mention of a global crisis today almost invariably seems to imply the continuing financial crisis in everyone’s mind. This is not completely surprising since newspapers are full of accounts of the turmoil in Greece and its implications for the st... |
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| Caught napping |
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Sir — The latest terrorist strikes across Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, have proved yet ... |
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| AT LINES DRAWN |
| No blame can attach to listening to the problems of the poor and dispossessed. The Supreme Court has said that this is part o...|
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| RITES OF PASSAGE |
| The Chinese have a tradition of using diplomacy to create, rather than clear, confusions. This can be a source of constant ir...|
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| Cry out for change |
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India is just not safe. Indian trains, which were once bang on time and safe, have become a hazard. They have become filthy, ... | Read.. |
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| Needlessly courting controversy |
| The resignation of Gopal Subramanium, the solicitor general of India, has been accepted, with the government regretting that he had gone public and ... |
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| Future in the balance |
| The decision of the American president, Barack Obama, to withdraw almost one-third of the troops from Afghanistan over the next 18 months has been a cause of concern in many q... |
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — JAMES JOYCE
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