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Labours love lost (20 March 10:41) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 08:41) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 06:41) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 04:46) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 02:43) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 12:43) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 10:44) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 06:44) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Round the mulberry bush (20 March 04:45) |
| L ife and death go hand in hand in the garden at the back of my house. This can be best seen in the first half of March. First, the mulberry tree growing alongside my boundary wall that had ... |
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As brilliantly played as ever (20 March 04:45) |
| Even though a performer of the stature of Roman Rudnytsky graced the city with a dazzling performance under the auspices of the American consulate at the Lincoln Room on February 17, student... |
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Only a pawn in the game (20 March 04:45) |
| Virtually timed with Women's Day, Nandikar's new production, Madhabi, gives Bhisham Sahni's sympathetic interpretation of Yayati's dutiful, victimized daughter a Bengali avatar. The story co... |
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There is a story behind every pattern (20 March 04:45) |
| It is difficult to ignore the sheer beauty of the colonial ambience when one organizes an exhibition in the Harrington Street Arts Centre. It is a presence that is captivating and perhaps ev... |
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Labours love lost (20 March 04:45) |
| The British political system is full of contradictions. The principal among these is the startling fact that Great Britain is a thriving and robust democracy with a monarch as the head of St... |
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Not another like him (20 March 04:45) |
| sunandadr@yahoo.co.in |
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Royalty is not enough (19 March 04:42) |
| Can authors live on their royalties alone? Come March-end, which closes the financial year, and almost all authors realize that royalties are never quite enough. At best, they constitute a s... |
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Those who left behind a sack of words (19 March 04:42) |
| The Land of Green Plums By Herta Müller, Granta, Rs 399 |
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Night watch (19 March 04:42) |
| Dream Villa By Dayanita Singh, Steidl, Rs 2,000 |
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too long a wait (19 March 04:42) |
| The newspapers are busy speculating about everything and have been unable to give readers a clear picture of what is happening between the ruling government and the Congress Party in the rea... |
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strong message (19 March 04:42) |
| Israel seems to have underestimated the wrath of Barack Obama, mistaking the goodwill of his administration for unbridled licence to do as it wills. Scaling down his original demand for a to... |
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No retreat (19 March 04:42) |
| Investment, it is said, is an act of faith. When the Tata group decided earlier this month to set up the first five-star hotel in Assam ' and in the whole of the Northeast ' it clearly signa... |
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Not the Westminster way (19 March 04:42) |
| "We Englishman are very proud of our Constitution, Sir. It was bestowed upon us by providence. No other country is so favoured as This Country." |
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An eye on the coast (18 March 02:45) |
| Admiral Noman Bashir, brother of the Pakistani foreign secretary, Salman Bashir, who was in New Delhi to hold talks with India, recently said, "The Indian navy's current force structure and ... |
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Home is where the hurt is (18 March 02:44) |
| The author is principal, Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta |
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Country comes first (18 March 02:44) |
| It was a spontaneous remark, expressing gratitude to her parents for having helped her reach her dream. When 18-year-old Chinese speed-skater, Zhou Yang, won her first gold at the Winter Oly... |
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Blood rites (18 March 02:44) |
| If for nothing else, the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva in Thailand will go down in history for its tolerance of political agitation, even the ones targeting it. Despite the ferocity of the... |
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moneyed glory (18 March 02:44) |
| The show of power sometimes has a mad edge, and that madness can teeter over into the dark pit of black laughter. Not even the creator of the Mad Hatter could have thought up a scene where t... |
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Strategies of cooperation (18 March 02:44) |
| The visit of the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, to India on March 12 provides the occasion to look at some of the geo-strategic issues facing India and Russia. |
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Sex and the seats (17 March 04:42) |
| Rita Rani Das was only 22 when she became the sarpanch of the Tentulia panchayat in Orissa's Angul district. "The seat was reserved for women and I thought that I could do a better job than ... |
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Beyond Time (17 March 04:42) |
| Time, wrote W.H. Auden in a splendid elegy on the death of W.B. Yeats in 1939, "worships language and forgives everyone by whom it lives; pardons cowardice, conceit, lays its honours at thei... |
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Time for realism (17 March 04:42) |
| The success of a new deal for Darjeeling can show if politics is really the art of the possible. True, the Centre's and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's plans for a settlement of the long-standi... |
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home thoughts (17 March 04:42) |
| There should be no compromise with quality when it comes to education. It is heartening that the cabinet also thinks so, although a legislation allowing the entry of foreign educational inst... |
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The art of deception (17 March 04:42) |
| Camouflage, sometimes bordering on deception, has been a part of diplomacy since the earliest record of diplomats among mankind in Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC. There was a time when the United S... |
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Locked away safely (17 March 12:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 10:40) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 08:42) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 06:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 04:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 02:40) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 12:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 10:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 08:41) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 06:40) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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Legal twist (16 March 04:43) |
| The government of India's proposed Integrated Child Protection Scheme aims to bring together existing child protection initiatives under a single, unified programme. One of its purported goa... |
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Locked away safely (16 March 04:43) |
| I have often wondered what happens to children after they are sent to government homes. Different categories of vulnerable children ' orphans and the disabled, drug-offenders and children in... |
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The Larger Truth (16 March 04:43) |
| To return from a neighbouring country and read the newspapers of the past four days is enough to make you ill. To read about Lalu Prasad swearing to pull down the United Progressive Alliance... |
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Just teaching (16 March 04:43) |
| There is something hollow at the heart of education in India. It has been a long time, almost 10 years in fact, since the Supreme Court outlawed corporal punishment in schools. That was the ... |
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Right dose (16 March 04:43) |
| Increasing costs and abysmal inefficiency usually combine to make healthcare systems in India a very dismal affair. The people of Assam should, therefore, derive some comfort from their gove... |
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High-level sudoku (16 March 04:42) |
| The meeting of the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries at the end of February ended with nothing of great significance except for the fact that it happened at all. |
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Divided land (15 March 04:42) |
| There are notable differences between Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States of America, and Umaru Yar'Adua, the current president of Nigeria. For one thing, Yar'Adua did no... |
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Loss of Face (15 March 04:42) |
| More than the fear of terror attacks, it is the intense tropical sun that seems to be playing havoc with the minds of those concerned with the security of Bhopal. It is anyone's guess why th... |
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