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Daily Archives: 19 August 2007

Posted on 19 August 2007 by churumuri
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A blueprint to make Parliament fool-proof (sic)

E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Secretary to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee was quite clear what his boss wanted when they were making plans for renovating Parliament. Somnath had spent days …

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