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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s recent pronouncements, in public speeches and television interviews, are quite remarkable. His criticism of the policies — or the lack of any — of his successor, Mamata Banerjee, is only to be expected. But he has also spoken out on the need to get private capital to Beng... | Read..
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| Hasty step |
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Sir — Pranab Mukherjee’s assent to the ordinance on sexual assault that was approved by the Union c ... |
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Sir — There has been a tremendous transformation in the image and the personality of the chief mini ... |
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Germany is much richer and in many ways more advanced than India. But its people are old-fashioned Aryans. They have traditio... | Read..
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State-driven prudery is one of the most ridiculous ways of undermining democracy. It makes the government look silly, and peo... | Read..
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It’s hard enough to manage a fishery stock sustainably when the fish stay put. Once they start moving around, it’s almost imp... | Read.. |
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Standing with their numbers on their blank faces, Nuremberg in miniature... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history’s fingers down it goes. — ALAN MOORE
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