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| Markets and supermarkets |
| FDI in retail is hardly the blessing it is being projected to be |
| Some time ago, newspapers in Britain carried full-page advertisements from the curiously named British Pig Association. This consortium of pig farmers was clamouring publicly that the supermarket chains were squeezing the farmers dry. Alongside them... |
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Sir — The government led by Mamata Banerjee has completed 200 days in office. The chief minister is ... |
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| Power women |
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Sir — The chief reason for not employing women in the combat forces may lie in the possibility of w ... |
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| A clarification |
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Sir — One is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts. Indeed, there are a number of ... |
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| HEAVY HAND |
| Being in government gives people inflated ideas about themselves and their power. Thus Kapil Sibal, the Union minister of tel...|
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| GREAT GAME LOST |
| The Bonn II summit has proved beyond doubt that with every step taken forward in resolving the conflict in Afghanistan, the w...|
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| Bridge the gap |
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In China, quotas have made their appearance. Renmin University in Beijing, one of the country’s top three universities, has d... | Read.. |
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| Without drawing blood |
| It was an empty chair that drew my attention to the family having dinner at the next table. Four persons — a middle-aged man, his wife, their child and the ayah (nanny)... |
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| Doggone life |
| In Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James writes of the visit of Sir Miles and Lady Culpepper to London. This resulted in a marital dispute, for Sir Miles’s young wife, m... |
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Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.— J.M. COETZEE
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