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| Flying into hope |
| The Indian military needs the healing touch of the president |
| By the time this article is published, the president of India and supreme commander of the armed forces will have bestowed a singular honour on the armed forces by having flown in a Sukhoi combat aircraft. To anyone other than jet fighter pilots just... |
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| Favoured faces |
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Sir — It is surprising that the railways minister, Mamata Banerjee, hired professional singers and ... |
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| Sour truth |
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Sir — After mounting protests, the ministry of information and broadcasting had issued a showcause ... |
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| CAPITOL IDEA |
| The rhetoric of India and the United States of America being natural allies, vintage 2009, received some substance when the p...|
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| BITTER AFTERTASTE |
| When it comes to sugar, prices are not set by supply-demand equations, but by regulation, making it inefficient and possibly ...|
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| Man of the People |
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Barack Obama may not have minded. But the authorities were taking no chances. After all, Chairman Mao isn’t exactly a favouri... | Read.. |
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| Three days that shook the country |
| A year ago, ten gunmen took a city hostage for nearly three days and pushed a nation into a deadly void. That city was Mumbai, and the country, Pakistan. But what impact did 2... |
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| Waiting with trepidation |
| Nothing usually changes in Mumbai except the real estate. Being the commercial capital of India and being the biggest investment banking headquarters of South Asia, Mumbai is ... |
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| Ways of showing |
| I had watched the horror of 26/11 unfold on television. I still remember staring at the screen, confounded with fear and rage, watching vignettes of a burning dome, hospital w... |
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In reality, killing time/ Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways/ By which Time kills us.
— OSBERT SITWELL
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