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The last year has been an extremely tough year for the Indian economy. Practically everything which could go wrong did turn sour. For much of the year, the United Progressive Alliance government has been a rudderless ship, buffeted by storms several of which were of their own making... | Read.. |
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| Marching ahead |
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Sir — The effusive praises showered on Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, by top industr ... |
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| Poor show |
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Sir — The sports minister of West Bengal, Madan Mitra, must take note of the miserable condition of ... |
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| Equal words |
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Sir — Amnesty International’s proposal to form a law pertaining to sexual abuse with a gender-neutr ... |
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For a company, nothing matters more than the vision of its chief executive. The head of a government carries pretty much the ... | Read..
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Amid the incessant violence, the turmoil on both the eastern and western borders of Pakistan, economic hardship, blackouts an... | Read..
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| Under watch |
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What did the Guangdong censors hope to achieve by rewriting an article already approved by them? Did they think that readers ... | Read.. |
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| Asking for the wrong rights |
| Since Independence, the hope for a mass movement in India has produced either guerrilla protests or television reality shows. We have had a confused (and mostly fantastical) p... |
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| Fact or fiction |
| As eager consumers of a domineering visual culture, we run the risk of being saturated by images. But some photographs manage to leave a mark, such as the two here that were p... |
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| All at once |
| One day a few years ago, I was walking along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg when I spotted a wall covered with deeply disturbing graffiti. The text in the art was in German, so I a... |
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Old men ought to be explorers/ Here and there does not matter/ We must be still and still moving/ Into another intensity. — T.S. ELIOT
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