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Sharing of distress
THE QUANTUM OF Cauvery water Karnataka has agreed to release as a "gesture of goodwill" — a total of six tmcft at 1200 cusecs on a daily basis till the end of February — has brought some but not much cheer to Tamil Nadu. What the ...
Measured steps
THE FINANCE MINISTER'S announcement before a gathering of non-resident Indians to do away with many exchange control provisions relating to overseas investment has predictably been interpreted as a decisive move towards capital account ...


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The liberal intelligentsia
By Supriya RoyChowdhury

The opposition to liberal progressivism is emanating not from obscurantist elements in a traditional society but from highly politicised sections of the middle and upper classes.
Tripping up on `tradition' — II
By Sadanand Menon

In India, instead of acknowledging tradition as a contemporary device... it was put into a time machine and sent on a mythical spin from which it emerged locked and frozen in a false and a-historic timelessness.


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