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| Always disinterested |
| William Crocker’s Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate |
| The relationship between Australia and India has usually been viewed through the lens of cricket. Don Bradman and Keith Miller were heroes to a generation of Indians reared on nationalist prejudice, which predisposed them to admire those who got the ... |
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| Telling tales |
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Sir — Salman Rushdie’s two-part article, “Blood relations” (Oct 22 and 23) was fascinating. Rushdie ... |
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| Road rage |
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Sir — The other day, I was sitting in a bus, which was waiting in a long queue before the toll tax ... |
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| PEACE, WATER AND TOILETS |
| Peacekeeping is a tough job, and the United Nations has to do a great deal of it. Cyprus, Lebanon, Georgia, Kosovo, Ethiopia,...|
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| Relic of the past |
| Those who watched Barkha Dutt’s We the People on the veil must have noticed that the invited audience was largely made... |
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Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber; a void where confused signals buzz about at random; where a murmur or innuendo causes panic: so, in the end, the machinery is more likely to vanish, not with war or revolution, but with a puff, or the voice of falling leaves. — BRUCE CHATWIN
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| Courting Trouble |
| Ram Jethmalani has taken plunges few others in his profession have dared to even consider... |
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