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| The next growth driver |
| Deficit should be brought down to zero in the next four years |
| The budget season approaches. The finance minister has just held his conclave with distinguished economists, businessmen, farmers, trade unionists and other worthies. The wisdom of his advisors was reflected in the finance ministry’s mid-term review,... |
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| Look back |
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Sir — I must thank The Telegraph for the insightful and thought-provoking article, “Born to ... |
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| Just cause |
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Sir — I often read reports on the disturbances in Darjeeling that blame, directly or indirectly, Bi ... |
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| VOTE WINNER |
| Sixty years ago, India decided to leap into the unknown. The founders of the Indian Republic decided that the fledgling democ...|
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| VOICE OVER |
| There is no denying that there was an extra edge in the voice of the Pakistan prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, when he rec...|
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| Shut out from the Nation |
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Our leaders have become insular and callous, our decision-making, thoughtless. Slogans of aam aadmi and garibi hata... | Read.. |
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| Journey through the underworld |
| On any given day, a ride in the Metro Railway can yield rich material for a study in human behaviour. The meek housewife who gets suddenly transformed into a virago as she tri... |
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| The sigh of phantom trails |
| As the train ground to a halt at the sleepy Biman Bandar station, Pinaki Ghoshal hurried out to make his way to work. From a distant compartment, one other passenger got out.... |
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| Magic circle |
| Every year, come winter, relatives would visit us in Calcutta. All of us children were taken for a ride on what my father called the “toy train”. The best part was that each ... |
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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.— RICHARD ALDINGTON
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