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| The rule of the underclasses |
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It is the penultimate day of Parliament’s budget session. Late in the afternoon, a minister rises in the Rajya Sabha to present a revised version of the lok pal bill. He makes a short speech explaining the salient features of the proffered revisions, and sits down. A first-time private member, not f... | Read..
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| Nice touch |
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Sir — Sachin Tendulkar has shown the way to politicians by turning down the official accommodation ... |
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| Backward step |
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Sir — The Indian Institutes of Technology are some of the most reputed institutions in the country. ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — I visited Motor Vehicles at Beltala to pay road tax. One counter was opened after 11 am. I wa ... |
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The distance between a republic and a kingdom is as vast as that between rule by discussion and rule by fiat. It is becoming ... | Read..
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The medical fraternity in India is evidently not feeling fraternal. The Indian Medical Association was at the forefront of a ... | Read..
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| A prize for failure |
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India is the only country in the world which celebrates failure by giving the defaulting individual a ‘kick upstairs’, as it ... | Read.. |
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I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
— ALBERT CAMUS
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| Mystic passion |
| A need to preserve the magic of tradition prompted the Aga Khan Trust for C... |
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| Nica’s blues |
| The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild By Hannah Ro... |
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