Be modern, be 'civil' to domestic servants
A hundred years ago, according to a recent book, domestic servants constituted Britain’s largest source of employment. That simple statistic reveals, better...
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True lies, Hillary’s silver cross and a flop show
SAO PAULO : Hillary Clinton was in town today. She caused a little bit of traffic jam in the downtown area. She also addressed students at a private university...
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Blackmail in the name of human rights for all
A controversy centred on the human rights body Amnesty International is raging in Britain and it could be instructive for India. Earlier this month, Gita...
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Terror antidote: America inspires, India despairs
How do Americans fight terror? Post-9/11, both in conducting diplomacy and fighting terror on ground zero (AfPak soil), they have followed the dictum: When the...
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Most authorities ask us to ‘look sharp’ when cautioning us about personal security. But the police chief of the Australian state of Victoria has asked Indian...
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There is tremendous opportunity for the US to tap in the coming meeting of two Nobel peace laureates. One, in exile, but quietly preserving a rare philosophy...
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Start preparing for oil at $200 a barrel
The Kirit Parikh Committee is the third such committee to suggest decontrolling petroleum product prices. Probably politicians will again refuse to do so, and...
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2010, The Year of the Tiger — Grrrrr
Oooooh!! Aren’t we scared??? Come Valentine’s Day — February 14 — and the Chinese Lunar New Year will be upon us! This is the Year of the Tiger,...
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Where would Pakistan be without President Asif Ali Zardari? Chances are, a few goats richer. He’s been sacrificing a black goat every day to ward off the evil...
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Google's fool all show: Double standard on Arunachal
Readers of my posts would have realised by now that nothing raises my hackles more than how we languish vis a vis China. Although I cannot grudge the Chinese...
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