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| Poison as prescription |
| SEZs and the national commission for farmers |
| It was the ancient Fifties. A venerable academic used to preside over the School of Economics and Sociology of the University of Bombay at its magnificent Churchgate campus. Once the annual budget of the Union government was presented on the last wor... |
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| Virtual addiction |
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Sir — It is good that people have realized at last that internet addicts are no less sick than alco ... |
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| Festival of doom |
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Sir — It is shameful that criminals have started using religion as a pretext for harassing people t ... |
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| CANNOT SAIL |
| Leading Indian companies have been aware of the compulsions of globalization; some, especially in pharmaceuticals, have taken...|
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| BREEDING TERROR |
| Bangladesh’s fledgling democracy is on trial once again. This is not the first time that the animosity between the two major ...|
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| Prize for the Big man |
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It is very unlikely that Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, re-elected last month to a third term with a 67 per cent majority,... | Read.. |
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| A society without compassion |
| Sri Lanka has been so brutalized by thirty years of ethnic strife that it has become immune to violence. “We have lost the capacity to feel outraged,” remarked a senior Colomb... |
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| Golden goose and ugly ducklings |
| It is difficult to imagine Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as a software professional. But there can be no doubts about the chief minister’s new-found love for information technology.... |
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Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as it’s starting on reform.
— ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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