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| Rising inequality |
| The value of a second look at income distribution |
| The standard measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient. It is equal to one if all income goes to one person; if one woman owned everyone in an economy, fed them what she liked and made them work according to her will, if all income belonged to h... |
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Sir — It is unfortunate that the field of education in West Bengal has been sullied by narrow polit ... |
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| Justice on trial |
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Sir — The Supreme Court bench comprising A.K. Ganguly and J.S. Khehar was justified in ordering tha ... |
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Sir — With Iran threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly one third of the wo ... |
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| TOUR DE FORCE |
| As the minister of external affairs, S.M. Krishna, flags off his tour of four West Asian nations with his trip to Israel, the...|
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| NEW DISORDER |
| One of the more palpable signs of the burgeoning of Bengal is the unmanageable growth in the number of hawkers in Calcutta’s ...|
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As the elections draw near, all kinds of possibilities — with or without ‘hard’ evidence — are being discussed and debated wi... | Read.. |
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If he knew where he was going, it is not apparent from this distance. He fell down a great deal during this period, because of a trick he had of walking into himself. — JAMES THURBER
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