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| Reading recent trends |
| India may be heading towards lower growth rates than before |
| World income was growing comfortably at about 5 per cent a year in the early years of this millennium. Then in 2008, growth suddenly slackened; by the end of the year, industrial countries’ domestic product was declining sharply, and growth in underd... |
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| People’s right |
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Sir — Recently, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud announced that women in Saudi Arabia would be a ... |
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| Food for thought |
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Sir — In his article, “Running on autopilot” (Sept 29), Bhaskar Dutta provides an excellent explana ... |
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| FIELD WORK |
| India moves, but it moves slowly. Sixty-four years after Independence a Union minister must still emphasize the unspeakable s...|
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| IN THE SAME BOAT |
| As the Eurozone crisis goes from bad to worse, the countries belonging to the region seem oblivious to one fundamental truth:...|
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| Between the acts |
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The government seems bent on abusing itself, thereby demeaning the Congress and discrediting its political partners. The last... | Read.. |
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| Letters from another autumn |
| These two letters, written at almost the same time of year as we celebrate Durga puja this year, speak of Rabindranath’s feeling for the festival in the year 1894 as he spends... |
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| A friend in need |
| They can be described as strange fellow-travellers. When Lal Krishna Advani had launched his Ram rath yatra in September 1990, Nitish Kumar belonged to the then Janata ... |
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
— HILAIRE BELLOC
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