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| Prejudices and preconceptions about Muslims in India |
| The report of the Sachar Committee is informative, meticulous and restrained. It has tested generally held prejudices and preconceptions about Muslims, and proved many to be wrong. It tells us graphically what it means to be a Muslim in India; even m... |
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| Open and shut case |
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Sir — The editorial, “Strike again” (Dec 15), could not have been more accurate in showcasing the c ... |
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Sir — The Calcutta police should immediately force all taxis to install electronic metres. Some tax ... |
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| ENEMY WITHIN |
| The Bengalis have long proved to be the worst enemies of Bengal’s promise. If there was an illusion of things changing, Ms Ma...|
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| OUT OF SCHOOL |
| What looks like a choice is often necessity. In India, the language of a ‘free’ market can often be misleading. When the poor...|
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| Rulers in their boxes |
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The forest rights bill, as it is called, has passed muster in the Lok Sabha but needs to be ratified by the upper house befor... | Read.. |
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| History waiting to be made |
| At last, our mealy-mouthed bureaucracy has been upstaged by none other than the prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Returning from Japan — India’s newly-minted friend and partner,... |
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| All that glitters is very expensive |
| People in India largely think of non-resident Indians as a group of extremely privileged people soaking in all the comforts Western urban life has to offer. After all, we must... |
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
— JOHN LOCKE
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