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| Trajectories of democracy |
| Ideals and arguments |
| More than sixty years after the attainment of Independence, democracy has come to stay in India. Today, this is widely acknowledged both within and outside the country. At the same time, it must be admitted that it has now entered troubled waters, an... |
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| About turn |
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Sir — Of late, the Trinamul Congress has been proving to be an extremely difficult and unreliable a ... |
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| United stand |
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Sir — In his article, “Thinking secularism” (Dec 28), Prabhat Patnaik explores the concept of secul ... |
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Sir — After his fall from grace, B.S. Yeddyurappa, the former chief minister of Karnataka, seemed t ... |
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| CENTRAL ISSUES |
| Conventions need to be revisited; otherwise, they tend to become laws. The powers of the states vis-à-vis the Centre h...|
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| FAST FOOD |
| The language of fasting, even at its most public, can never quite rid itself of the cadences of a family drama. “If you don’t...|
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| Taken for a ride |
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About a hundred companies with weird acronyms — Leasco, Rosco, Toc, Eps, Imu, Tru, Hms — are regulated by the equally strange... | Read.. |
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| Still muddling through |
| If you see a fork in the road, take it! For sixty years, Britain has been following Yogi Berra’s advice in its relations with Europe. At the beginning of 2012, the question re... |
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| Original vision |
| The world is agog with excitement about the possible discovery of something called the Higgs boson, or the God Particle, in the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, Ge... |
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— MAYA ANGELOU
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