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| Class act |
| Amartya Sen does not say what constitutes class in new India |
| The archaic English term ?pukka sahib? was once defined as someone whose father had been to the same prep and public school as yours. The quintessential snobbery of that emphasis, not only on old money and heredity but also on its cultural expression... |
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Sir ? The entire Sarabjeet Singh episode is a political stunt which is proceeding according to a pr ... |
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| Striking distance |
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Sir ? The new anti-hijacking policy of the United Progressive Alliance is welcome and will go a lon ... |
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| THE MOBILE?S A MUST |
| At various moments in history, taking a train, flying on a plane and wearing a brassiere could be seen as public assertions o...|
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| Are we a nation of liars? |
| In a Lahore high court judgment delivered in 1924, two English judges expressed the opinion that all Punjabis were liars. For... |
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The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or white ? there was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were bad ? there was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sour ? there were never any moderately nice ones. ? P.L. TRAVERS
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