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P. Sainath
The Iron Laws of the Earth Sciences
A lesser man's career might have ended long ago. But Vilasrao Deshmukh is not a lesser man. His success mounts in inverse proportion to his achievements.
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By Bill Kirkman
Cambridge Letter: Rationalising rewards
If honours such as knighthood had more logical reasons for their award, they would be valued much more.
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Harsh Mander
Barefoot - The other side of life
Can anyone really live on Rs. 26 a day, the income of the officially poor in rural India? Two youngsters try it out.
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By Vasundhara Chauhan
Gourmet Files : The taste lingers
When you look into your cup of tea, do you smell sweet memories?
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C. P. Chandrasekhar
A crisis ignored
The advance estimate of national income in 2011-12, released recently by the Central Statistical Organisation points to a decline in India’s GDP growth rate from 8.4 per cent last year to 6.9 per t...
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RECENT COLUMNS
February 12, 2012
S. MUTHIAH
Madras Miscellany - When the postman knocked…
It's been another of those weeks that has kept the postman busy and readers contributing generously to this column.* First off the mark was archaeology historian Chithra Madhavan correcting...
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February 11, 2012
L. SUBRAMANIAN
Bridge: Watch him squirm
Most players are of the opinion that squeezes occur towards the end of the play of a bridge hand. While it is generally true, there are exceptions, as witness today's deal from a pairs tournament....
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February 5, 2012
C. R. L. NARASIMHAN
The data divergence
It may be trite to say that not just policymakers but even the typical man on the street is evidencing great interest in the economic growth prospects in a way never seen before. The focus on grow...
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February 4, 2012
KALPANA SHARMA
The Other Half: Burn dowry, not women
In a season where every other person seems to be taking offence at something or the other, let me add what offends me. I was deeply offended and hurt when I read the following headline: “One bride...
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January 29, 2012
C. P. Chandrasekhar
The Indian footprint of US firms
American multinationals appear to have substantially expanded their presence in India. The Bureau of Economic Affairs of the US Department of Commerce has recently released the results of its bench...
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January 28, 2012
L. SUBRAMANIAN
Bridge: Make the right assumptions
You decide to play for the overtrick in the deal below from a pairs contest, as you are badly in need of a top. Since it is a bit difficult, let me give a clue to the play: Make the right assumptio...
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January 26, 2012
M. V. RAMAKRISHNAN
Musicscan: Magic of blends and contrasts
There’s something fascinating about the pose a sitar-player strikes, holding the instrument across the chest with a raised moving hand, just as Goddess Saraswathi holds the veena in Ravi Varma’s i...
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January 21, 2012
SUCHITRA BEHAL
In Passing: On the comeback trail
She’s been off the radar for a while but now it seems like actor Rani Mukherjee is crafting her comeback story. Mukherjee, who was written off in the face of competition from fresher and younger f...
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January 21, 2012
Kalpana Sharma
The Other Half: We should be ashamed
Shame, said the Prime Minister, that 42 per cent of Indian children are malnourished. Shame, said the Supreme Court, that despite the Right to Education, thousands of children, and particularly gir...
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January 21, 2012
VIKRAM KAPUR
Old stereotypes surface again
The parallels between Salman Rushdie and M.F. Husain are uncanny. Both were born Muslim. Both subscribed to the view that serious art needs to be provocative and push the boundaries of what is tole...
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Musicscan: Magic touches were many
BCCI: Billionaires Control Cricket in India
Barefoot — Kandhamal: The aftermath
Bridge: Select the right card
The Shrinking Universe - The more the merrier?
Cattle class: native vs exotic
Doha talks going in rounds
Crime pays, in fiction
February 12, 2012
S. SAROJA
Caveat Emptor — A service to remember
The Department of Posts has been offering its service for years in sale of stamps, stationery, remittance of money through postal orders / money orders, savings bank and savings certificate, philat...
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February 9, 2012
M. V. Ramakrishnan
Musicscan: Mystery and marvel
Attending Anoushka Shankar's recent Indo-Flamenco concert in Chennai, I couldn't help looking back to a Kathak-Flamenco dance performance by the London-based couple Pratap and Priya Pawar and thei...
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February 4, 2012
VIJAY NAGASWAMI
The Shrinking Universe: The wonder years
The most abiding memory, for me certainly, of the recently-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival, a truly remarkable annual event on the national calendar, was not of the imbroglio surrounding Salm...
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January 29, 2012
C. R. L. NARASIMHAN
Signalling confusion?
The Reserve Bank of India's third quarter review of monetary policy was devoid of major surprises. The only change in monetary policy instruments — a cut in the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 0.50 pe...
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January 28, 2012
Harsh Mander
Barefoot: Children beyond divides
A young boy of 10, Anil, peeps into the hostel room of Harsh Gupta, delivering his laundered clothes one evening, and asks him tentatively, “Do you know how electricity is produced?” Harsh, a stude...
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January 28, 2012
Vasundhara Chauhan
Gourmet Files: Lo Straniero A Goa
In Goa recently it was brought home to me, yet again, that people are the same, no matter where you go. Especially in their eating habits. The ever-growing expat community, of which I met ma...
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January 22, 2012
C. R. L. NARASIMHAN
Fresh direction to monetary policy?
The significance of RBI's credit policy announcement scheduled for Tuesday January 24 can hardly be overstated. As has been the case before every policy statement, there is a riveting interest on...
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January 21, 2012
Vijay Nagaswami
The Shrinking Universe: I am fine, really
Often, the first thing that many of my clients tell me when they first come to see me is that there's nothing really wrong with them, but they just want to bounce something off me. Sometimes they s...
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January 21, 2012
Worldspace: Mughals at the Smithsonian
In a grand tribute to Mughal art, 50 masterpieces go on display at the Institution.
Even if the India-United States relationship appears to be a monochrome parade of banality in th...
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January 21, 2012
Parvathi Nayar
Talking Movies : Adventure of the immortal detective
A pipe-smoking detective who sports a deerstalker and has few social graces sounds like an implausible icon of pop culture, let alone one that has survived since his first public appearance in 1887...
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An imbalance to address
Cambridge Letter: Justice at last
Worldspace: Divisive as ever
Gourmet Files : The chana way
The Other Half - On wearing 'obscene' clothes
Holy cow! Small is beautiful
The Shrinking Universe - Out of sync
- Affluenza: Hindol Sengupta
- Barefoot: Harsh Mander
- Bridge: L. Subramanian
- Cambridge Letter: Bill Kirkman
- Fiscally Fit: Shyam P.
- Gourmet Files: Vasundhara Chauhan
- In Passing: Suchitra Behal
- Lit by Books: Nirmala Lakshman
- Media Matters: Sevanti Ninan
- Pacemaker: Yogacharini Maitreyi
- The Other Half: Kalpana Sharma
- The Shrinking Universe: Vijay Nagaswami
Barefoot - The other side of life
The Iron Laws of the Earth Sciences
A crisis ignored
The Indian footprint of US firms
Cambridge Letter: Rationalising rewards
Gourmet Files : The taste lingers
Barefoot: Children beyond divides
Debt as burden
Holy cow! Small is beautiful
Cattle class: native vs exotic
