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| Banking on change |
| To remain relevant, the IMF and World Bank must change |
| The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were conceived in Bretton Woods in 1944. Today they are past retirement. It is not so much that the problems they were designed to address have disappeared; rather that the world economy has changed, com... |
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| Blood and protest |
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Sir — After the bloodbath in Cooch Behar, the All India Forward Bloc, a constituent of the Left Fro ... |
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| LEAVE A SPACE |
| There is nowadays a certain self-consciousness attached to the term ‘multicultural’. The aura is of Western import, and the m...|
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| TEEING OFF |
| From caddie to champion is as rare an occurrence in sports as the journey from the log cabin to the White House is in politic...|
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| When Nothing Moves |
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The American election should teach us important lessons about reaching out and communicating, about the determination to win ... | Read.. |
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| Play it again and again, Sam |
| They make a mean High Rise at the Grand Hotel’s Chowringhee Bar. The waitress smiles politely every time she passes me by. There is something Wodehousean about the ambience, i... |
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| THIS IS NOT A PRODIGY |
| Sometimes, being put in one’s place can be a wonderful relief. I had spent the first twenty-odd years of my life in Calcutta being told, with hyper-ventilating ardour, that I ... |
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| The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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