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| Fiercely on guard |
| Parliamentary privileges need to be reviewed and clarified |
| For the past fortnight, the ‘majesty’ and ‘dignity’ of Parliament have been repeatedly invoked by notables unsettled by the assertion of ‘people’s power’ on the streets of urban India. The agitation led by a septuagenarian Gandhian may have triggered... |
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| Decline and fall |
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Sir — In the article, “If salt loses its savour” (Aug 29), Ashok Mitra forecasts a forthcoming coll ... |
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| No full stops |
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Sir — India-Bangladesh border, 1972. Then a college student, I was travelling to the six-months-old ... |
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| WORTH A LAUGH |
| The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, perhaps does not realize that he has a jester as a ministerial colleague. This is the mo...|
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| SHORT STAY |
| The arrivals and departures of Japan’s short-lived prime ministers expose much more than political instability. They undersco...|
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| Time For a Change |
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From the reports floating in and around the public space, the Congress appears to be in complete disarray with groups pitched... | Read.. |
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. — T.S. ELIOT
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| The secret son |
| Aatish Taseer’s second novel, Noon, is made up of four, relatively disjointed episodes... |
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| Old engagements |
| I wonder if you’ve ever thought about why people write their autobiographies, or get them written. It could be, for... |
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| A new vision |
| The Qur’an is one of the most read books of all time. Muslims believe it is the word of God sent to the Prophet Mohammed ... |
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