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| Grabbers and watchers |
| A judgment universally welcomed |
| The judgment of the Supreme Court on 2G licences has been universally welcomed; that is quite an achievement in a country whose billion inhabitants insist on having at least a billion and one opinions. Such unanimity is based on a universal longing f... |
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| Blood sport |
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Sir — It was a black day in soccer history when at least 73 people, including a number of security ... |
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| Born winner |
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Sir — Mitt Romney, who is competing for Republican nomination in the presidential primaries, seems ... |
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| New dawn |
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Sir — The by-elections in April are sure to be another turning point in Myanmar’s history (“Suu Kyi ... |
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| SERVING TIME |
| The subject of the duration and range of medical education keeps coming up from time to time, both at the Centre and in the s...|
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| ALL FALL DOWN |
| It is free fall for Syria now. The Arab League has used the last bit of ammunition in its cache by hurrying its case to the U...|
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| For A fresh lease of life |
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Undoubtedly, Dinesh Trivedi needs to be applauded for his bold statement at the Ficci conclave regarding the depoliticization... | Read.. |
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| Finger food and a dark bedroom |
| Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya must have had a rude shock when the Norwegian child protection unit, Barnevernet, pronounced their parenting faulty and whisked their children... |
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| An old rude song |
| Very often after a party, conversation will turn to that loud woman who seemed to think the state of her gall bladder was riveting or the man who stole the gravy boat from und... |
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| Sacred profanities |
| Different cultures do have radically different ideas about what Roger Scruton called “common decencies”. But even within a culture, the accepted protocols apply differently to... |
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In the kitchen the housemother/ Pours soup for her thousand children/ As her man eats his silence/ And the dog swallows its poem.
— FRANCIS SCARFE
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