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| Eat, drink and be secure |
| Food security and water security go hand in hand |
| There was a record fall in global foodstocks last year owing to a number of factors. These include changing dietary patterns in developing countries, diversion of agricultural land used for wheat, oilseeds, and so on, to grow corn for bio-fuel produc... |
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| Nightmare in uniform |
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| Ghostly tricks |
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Sir — It is amazing how the guessing game on the cause of the blast on Shakespeare Sarani took a li ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — It feels good to learn that Orient has “given up” ‘Longman’ and not allowed itself to be take ... |
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| WATCH IT |
| Immediately after Manmohan Singh’s return from China, The Telegraph noted in these columns that there were some fundam...|
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| TIGHTEN UP |
| A state as dense with people and poultry as West Bengal cannot afford to be inept in tackling bird flu. The virus is spreadin...|
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| Sixty Years of Descent |
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Anything that doctors cannot diagnose or put their finger on, is passed off as a virus and first-time viruses are growing lik... | Read.. |
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| Theatre of the absurd |
| There was a time when the arrival of circuses in Calcutta seemed to signal the approach of winter in the city. Colourful tents would sprout almost overnight in Park Circus or ... |
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| Tinsel and sawdust |
| Shantu Pandey of the Great Royal circus could have been born in the ring. Her mother, Dolly Guha, had been a circus artist, as had been her late father. After retiring, Dolly ... |
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
— VICKI BAUM
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