| State
Pulse: West Bengal: Food riots
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West
Bengal has rather exceptionally failed in its PDS compared to
other states of India. It has the highest percentage (10.6)
of rural households that don't get adequate food during some
months of the year- Maurin Nandini Mitra
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| View
Point: A Nandigram waiting to happen
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| A
delegation of the "Joint Action Committee for Protection
of residential, agricultural lands and wetland of Langol-Lamphelpat
areas" in Imphal west, Manipur, led by Ms Kim Gangte, former
Member of Parliament, met... |
| hPersonal
Thought: The centenarian Alvas
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The
Alvas Joachim and Violet were a unique couple. They are the
first husband and wife team, I had come across, who were both
gifted journalists. Nearly forty years later, we have TN and
Sevanti Ninan.
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| Eagle's
Eye: From Kyoto to Bali
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Rationalists
and evolutionists take moral courage as people who are supposed
to know the truth deny the truth- RK Kutty
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| Watch
Tower: Pirates' menace remains even today
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It
just seems like the world's oceans are infested with robbers
and pirates- Bhaskar Dasgupta
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