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| A very public tutorial |
| Why Team Anna won the debate about the lok pal bill |
| The televised debates at the Calcutta Club and Jantar Mantar about the campaign for the jan lok pal bill might not have changed many minds but they did tell us a great deal about the campaign’s agenda, the disagreements among the principal characters... |
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| For freedom |
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Sir — Although I am not a member of social networking sites, I can well understand the sentiments o ... |
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| HALF MEASURES |
| Half-hearted, hesitant steps are no substitute for radical reforms. Outdated land laws in West Bengal cry out, not for cosmet...|
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| STEP FORWARD |
| For those who have always insisted that the taste of the pudding is in the eating, the news that Aung San Suu Kyi’s National ...|
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| Drunk on power |
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The scene created by 27 MPs of Bihar, mostly of the National Democratic Alliance, at Patna and Mughalsarai railway stations ... | Read.. |
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| The adventures of strangers |
| When The Lord of the Rings films were released, a well known Tolkien scholar, Wayne G. Hammond, was appalled. He said of the first two films ... |
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| Blistering barnacles, it’s Holmes |
| Captain Haddock’s Scottish brogue made fans instantly suspicious. There was no mention, in any of the comic books, of the moody sailor having a Scottish brogue ... |
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| In another tongue |
| It is not Steven Spielberg who recalled Tintin for Calcuttans. Bengalis had never really lost touch with the young Belgian journalist ever since 1975 ... |
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. — WINSTON CHURCHILL
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