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| A man called Obama |
| Obama seems like a painless route to a post-racial politics |
| I got up at the crack of dawn yesterday to see if my man would win. I’ve been following Barack Obama’s fortunes for five years now, ever since the time I read a piece in The New Yorker about how a mixed-race upstart from nowhere had tak... |
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| Unknown citizen |
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Sir — In “Tale of the three A’s”, (Feb 1), Ashok Mitra cites the arrest and torture of Aftab Alam A ... |
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| Hardly an honour |
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Sir — The Bharat Ratna sparked off a political controversy when L.K. Advani, in a bid to repay his ... |
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| ROAD BLOCK |
| The deaths at Dinhata are a tragic consequence of the battles for political space that Bengal is increasingly witnessing. For...|
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| HEIR CUT |
| India has a yen for legacies. Such wealth is often metaphysical, measured in the richness — or usefulness — of ideologies, at...|
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| Living In Cold Comfort |
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Indeed, phrases more common during Mao’s days are being used now: courage, discipline, unity, cooperation, selfless sacrifice... | Read.. |
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| In the cause of tolerance |
| I have just finished reading a book entitled Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It is about a young girl, Ayaan, the book’s author, who was born in Somalia. She was one of thr... |
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| Flying high and feeling safe |
| In the light of the recent non-fatal crash of the British Airways Boeing 777-LR aircraft at Heathrow airport, I am more than convinced that it is time to take a fresh look int... |
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The tourists who come to our island take in the Monarchy along with the feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
— WILLIE HAMILTON
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