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| Caste and class in politics |
| It has now become a part of the conventional wisdom that caste is the pre-eminent feature of our public life. Discussions in the media of the electoral process or of cabinet formation cannot proceed without entering into calculations regarding the a... |
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| Blunt weapon |
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Sir — Ashok Mitra’s article, “Pretence stays king” (April 6), is full of biased ideas and shallow k ... |
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| Right step |
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Sir — The editorial, “Not enough” (April 4), assesses the chief minister’s bold attempt to amend th ... |
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| A clarification |
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Sir — The report in The Telegraph (“Economist leaves”, April 9) that I had left the 20th Con ... |
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| CLIMATE CHANGE |
| They may not have been able to change the world, but communist parties today cannot do without changing themselves. Some of t...|
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| LEVEL FIELDS |
| Populism follows a path that is not determined by logic. Populist decisions have motives and not reasoning behind them. The i...|
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| the heroes are dead |
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When Yuvraj Singh arrived at the Delhi airport yesterday morning, the photographers of the press corps of India behaved in a ... | Read.. |
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| The irony of life after death |
| After coming to know of the comical antics of ghosts in a popular Bengali film recently, I started thinking about Shiji and Guji. The two, as you might have guessed, are ghost... |
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| Fear and longing |
| The thing a human being should fear most is perhaps his own mind. For our imagination creates most of the horrors we live through. Tagore’s idyllic pasture — “where the mind i... |
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| Tricks of faith |
| The first cinematic projections often struck fear in their earliest viewers, and anybody who has read Volume I of In Search of Lost Time or watched Fanny and ... |
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I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. — KATHRYN STOCKETT
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