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CHURUMURI POLL: Loan waiver, right or wrong?
The centrepiece of the Union budget for 2008-09 presented by finance minister P. Chidambaram is unquestionably the waiver of agricultural loans to the tune of Rs 60,000 crore. All loans …
‘How Karnataka is becoming Gujarat of South’
GAURI LANKESH writes from Bangalore: Recently, three young men were arrested in Hubli and Honnali on charges of vehicle theft. Since all of them happened to belong to the Muslim …
When the kettle calls the pot black and blue
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Although the verbiage is getting shriller and shriller, and should largely be ignored, the kind of words Mathew Hayden & Co are using, and getting away with, …
Love thy neighbour’s strife? You shall not.
Ramachandra Guha has an excellent piece in The Telegraph today, urging Indians to resist the temptation to triumphantly gloat over their own happy state, and scoff at Pakistan’s miserable plight. …
For a late-bloomer, music is the song of life
She is 21 years old, but her mental age is four. Seven days after her birth, doctors operating on an intestinal problem declared her dead. Twice. She learnt to walk …
In Ayodhya, Dasaratha’s wives gorged on idli-dosa
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: The late A.K. Ramanujan is arguably one of the best-known Indian writers worldwide. Ramanujan, who taught at the University of Chicago for decades, introduced …
God moves in mysterious ways for a 3-year-old
While media mavens feverishly debate whether journalists should abandon their professional duties and lend a hand in moments of crisis, a three-year-old Afghan girl born with a deadly skin disorder …
