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| Time to take off |
| India must take a long, hard look at its aeronautical policies |
| As the long-awaited air force proposal for the purchase of the medium multi-role combat aircraft enters its final lap after a torturous decade, there must be considerable anxiety within air headquarters that watch this slow process unfold even as the... |
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| Troubled waters |
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| LESSONS OF 9/11 |
| Ten years ago, Osama bin Laden’s war on the United States of America set off a chain reaction of other wars. The West struck ...|
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| NOT THIS CHANGE |
| Enemies within are often a bigger problem for a ruler than those without. Trade union leaders of his own party did enough — t...|
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| Ruled By The Blind |
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The world has changed; people across the planet have changed; aspirations have changed; people’s priorities have changed; but... | Read.. |
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| The language of a perfect sacrifice |
| Some say that Irom Sharmila always fasted on Thursdays. So when military personnel chose to mow down 10 civilians in Malom on a Thursday, they say, she simply continued with h... |
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| Every man for himself |
| Corruption has now become synonymous with the Indian government, and Anna Hazare is indignant. So he’ll pledge to fast, ostensibly unto death, to protest against the ills plag... |
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| Popular dreams |
| Anna Hazare has shown that in order to become a youth icon you don’t need to be young. During Anna’s fast, the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi was brimming over with young, urban boys... |
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And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;/ Their only monument the asphalt road/ And a thousand lost golf balls.”
— T.S. ELIOT
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