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| Subsidies are pointless when the affluent receive the benefits |
| I have just finished reading Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers. This is a truly poignant and beautifully written account of life in Annawadi, a slum which is just a few hundred metres away from Mumbai International airport. Annawad... |
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| Sad comedy |
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Sir — The extremely autocratic ways of the West Bengal chief minister — first it was her opposition ... |
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| STATES’ VOICES |
| The principle of federalism, enshrined though it is in the Constitution of India, is honoured only in the breach. The cliché ...|
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| HATE LESSONS |
| This is not exactly the food for thought that West Bengal needs. The state’s food minister, Jyotipriya Mullick, wants support...|
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| Time To Clear The Clutter |
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It is becoming a bit tiresome, this Darjeeling business. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders blow hot in the hills, come down ... | Read.. |
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| Throwing some new light on old matters |
| When the army chief writes to the prime minister of the nation to state that the internal health of the armed forces is quite critical, it is time to delve deep, analyse, ide... |
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — TERRY PRATCHETT
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