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| Can the centre hold? |
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Sir — The editorial, “The dirty truth” (Nov 20), is enlightening. The chief minister of West Bengal ... |
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Sir — The latest decision of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations to allow a ... |
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Sir — The road from Siliguri to Darjeeling, NH 55, has been in a pitiable condition for nearly one- ... |
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| LINE OF FIRE |
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| PARTY SPIRIT |
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Rarely do the Chinese witness what is a common occurrence in India — mounds of garbage on the main roads of big cities. Most ... | Read.. |
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| In the age of unreason |
| Legend has it that the Pythagoreans who first investigated the square root of two, an irrational number, “perished in a shipwreck”. Such numbers, the early mathematicians foun... |
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| Battling blindness |
| Some years ago, in Purulia’s Kantaberia village, some people had gathered around a gunin who had been invited to identify a witch. Several women were lined up near him.... |
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| The world ends next year |
| One should be immensely happy on receiving a cheque worth Rs 888. Here, one must look beyond immediate monetary gains, and into the deeper meanings of numbers. According to In... |
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — WOODY ALLEN
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