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| A date to remember |
| The succession controversy has not been good for the army |
| Even as the nation was watching the jan lok pal agitation unfold with its impact on various institutions of our democracy, it is ironic that another salvo should have come our way from the one institution that was considered far removed from the ... |
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Sir — The editorial, “Test ahead” (Sept 30), aptly urges Mamata Banerjee “to show the same spirit a ... |
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| Long war |
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Sir — The American president would hardly take the risk of earning the ire of the sizeable Jewish c ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The use of plastic bags that are 40 microns or less in thickness has been banned. But the ban ... |
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| LINE IN THE SAND |
| Assessing which families are ‘poor’ and which are not was always a tricky business; a number of reports on the extent of ...|
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| SEE RED |
| In these festive days, as common people make good use of their legs to hop from pandal to pandal, uncommon ...|
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| ABOUT POLITICS |
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In early August this year, Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, downgraded US bonds marginally from AAA to AA+ for ... | Read.. |
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| The goddess among the many arts |
| A fluttering Durga Puja poster had caught my eye a few weeks ago. Neither the goddess nor the demon she slew was visible in it. All I could see was the face of an ... |
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| God’s own advert |
| Who replaces the celebrities on hoardings during Durga Puja? A bigger celebrity, but not with a human body. It is the clay-bodied goddess herself. As the Durga Puja approaches... |
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| Age of shopping |
| Shopping is often a pleasure. Or it could be. It is undoubtedly a frenzied pleasure for more people than can be counted, for more hours and days that a calculator can compute ... |
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A good many inconveniences attend play-going in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — KENNETH TYNAN
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