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| Parochial freedoms |
| How much difference can European pluralism digest? |
| In the latest issue of The Economist, the columnist Charlemagne (named, appropriately enough, after the fiercely Christian 8th-century king who defined the frontiers of Western Europe) argued against formal restrictions on free speech. Laws ag... |
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| Lip service |
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Sir — It is shocking to note that the government is still dithering over an outright ban on child m ... |
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| AT LAST |
| It will remain a mystery why it took the prime minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, ten months to appoint a foreign minister. The cho...|
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| DRIFTING ALONG |
| Nobody in Ranchi seems to know for sure who really runs the government there. The chief minister, Mr Madhu Koda, only preside...|
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| Lessons
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If you’re an imperial power, your troops often end up in places that most of your citizens cannot even find on the map: Mesop... | Read.. |
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| Price of success |
| In Bengal, where strikes are an accepted form of political dialogue, and their success has little bearing on the electoral strength of the party calling the strike, it does no... |
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| When the canvas tells a lie |
| They might have inspired many a masterpiece, but the models who pose for hours in the city’s art college are not masters of their own lives. The fact that their job profile is... |
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: ‘ My dear, we live in an age of transition.’
— W.R. INGE
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