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| The Taliban strikes show up the security problems Karzai faces |
| Taliban attacks inside and around Kabul on April 15, described by the Taliban as heralding a ‘spring offensive’, have wide national, regional and international implications. Although the death toll was relatively low considering the scale of the assa... |
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| Balance sheet |
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Sir — Mukul Kesavan, in his article, “To be educated together” (April 22), wholeheartedly supports ... |
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Sir — There has been much hullabaloo over Shah Rukh Khan being detained at the White Plains airport ... |
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| REPLAY BUTTON |
| History, the wise are known to say, repeats itself. There are reports, unsubstantiated, that important cabinet ministers are ...|
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| SHARP TURN AHEAD |
| The French have set their heart on having a president less dapper than the current occupant of Champs-Élysées. They have alre...|
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| Meant for the private eye |
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A walk down any of China’s cities would shock an Indian. The skin show and public displays of affection almost match those in... | Read.. |
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| Beyond the prince |
| Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, all wait for Prince Charming. Fairy tales are about these women — their sufferings at the hands of wicked stepmothers and je... |
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| Where kisses are not chaste |
| Snow White may have bitten into a poisoned apple given her by her wicked stepmother, but the deep slumber that ensued was believed, by generations of children, to be just that... |
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| Like gentle drops of rain |
| A Russian minister wishes to revive old fairy tales in place of Harry Potter. In the 200th year of the publication of Grimms’ tales, what do fairy tales say about the real wor... |
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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