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Warren Buffett has been known to quote his mentor Billy Graham very often: the latter maintained that what goes up must of necessity come down. In other words, the bulls climb the stairs slowly and the bear jumps out of the window. Graham is talking...
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The US South, it is said, is a region altogether different from the rest of the country. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are caught in a time trap. Like Amish country, nothing has really changed there. Of course, the quality of life has become...
War is an adventure till bullets pass one by. And of course, one has to be on the winning side. The UK Guardian has reported the Mercian Regiment’s encounters with death in a very breezy, devil-may-dare manner. Everything centres on the British and...
Our girls are badgered day in and out by multi-national companies to become fairer ad infinitum. And guys too are now targeted. Duskiness is hated and derided. Open any marriage columns in news-papers and you will find the requirement from would be...
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The mainstream media wants to appear objective and universally true. Yet nothing is ever ideologically unbiased. Take the case of the BBC reporting on Israel’s incursions into the Gaza Strip. The BBC first declares the error of it all; how Israel is...
The UK Independent characteristically highlights the changing status of Asia and Africa in world diplomacy, nonetheless pointing out the Eurocentric nature of technological advances. In the last few years, technology has progressed in amazingly fast,...
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I am traveling from Bishnupur, Dt. Bankura, West Bengal to Arambagh in Hoogly District. The bus is packed with local youth returning home from their colleges. In the seat behind me two salwar clad girls are whispering about the need for...
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Nandigram is a blot to West Bengal’s new image as an investor–savvy state. The CPI(M) is accused of unleashing a huge cadre-force to grab land from poor peasants. Intellectuals in Kolkata have taken to the streets to protest what they term as...
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A white man is distraught at the way big, bad and unscrupulous Chinese businesses are destroying the world’s crystal clear environment. Bill Miller in the desmogblog raves against the Chinese habit of buying wood from poorer nations in South...
I know a rickshaw-puller in the sub-divisional town where I work. He is a good man in every possible way. But he loves his country liquor after a hard day’s labor. Then he turns into a monster. This same man is aware that adulterated country...
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