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Coal has been in the news. It gave the Opposition leaders an occasion for staging one of their favourite dances, in which they jump madly up and down and shout for the prime minister’s resignation. The occasion for their Bollywood show was the loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore estimated by the comptroller ... | Read..
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| Just laws |
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Sir — Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the governm ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The clandestine trade in country liquor, run by some ruffians in the disguise of traders, has ... |
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West Bengal is not exactly the most favoured destination for investors. It has become something of a nightmare for them ever ... | Read..
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To each his own. The idea might not have found place among the celebratory principles that guided the formation of the non-al... | Read..
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| Killing the soul |
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We are into the third quarter of 2012 and all that we have seen is rapid decline in everything from civil society to growth a... | Read.. |
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| In a world without boundaries |
| The middle-class Bengali relates the word ‘copyright’ most readily to Tagore. The lifting of Visva-Bharati’s copyright on Tagore’s works had created a massive turmoil in the B... |
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| Corner shop |
| You have to deftly manoeuvre your way through the people packed into that small space at noon on a busy weekday. You squeeze through the crowd and manage to find a spot at the... |
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Become a major, Paul. Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? — J.M. COETZEE
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