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| A prime minister in peril |
| From warm welcome to disappointing failure |
| Soon after the general elections of 2004, I heard a sociologist and an economist exchange stories about the new prime minister. Back in the early 1990s, the sociologist was asked to write a recommendation for one of Manmohan Singh’s daughters. Since ... |
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| Love the rupee |
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Sir — The fall of the rupee in the international market is naturally a cause of great worry — more ... |
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| Pay up |
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Sir — The editorial, “Prodigal state” (Dec 27), may not go down well with certain quarters. But it ... |
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| Lost voice |
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Sir — Connoisseurs of Rabindrasangeet will miss the sonorous voice of the reclusive Ritu Guha (“Sin ... |
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| IT ENDS WELL |
| The year 2011 in India was a bad one that ended well. Two days before the curtain call for 2011, the lok pal bill, after bein...|
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| Food for some new thought |
| Hindi’s disproportionate dominance, South Central Zone Cultural Centre’s strange persistence in sending Hindi productions from Mumbai and South Zone Cultural Centre’s continue... |
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| Junkyard groove |
| When images leap out at you from a static canvas, you’re struck by the movement in art and its meaning. The motion your mind sees gives the work a form that takes it beyond th... |
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| An evening that oozed nostalgia |
| She was known as Bhajanwali Meera or Adhunik Meera. She started singing at the age of seven and recorded her first Hindi bhajan when she was 12 years old. Her first alb... |
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| Fighting a war of words |
| In spite of having written extensively on the Indo-Pak war for Indian and foreign journals, I realize I have not mentioned my... |
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You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect, yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.
— RICHARD DAWKINS
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