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| 150 years of Darwin: Savage Reviewers |
24-NOV-09 |
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On this day, one hundred and fifty years ago, the publishing house of John Murray brought out a condensed and abridged treatise on The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in a first printing of 1,250 copies. |
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| Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The South Indian dilemma |
24-NOV-09 |
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The huge presence of media firms, from Mumbai and Delhi, i-bankers and PEs at the Ficci Chennai conference was the clearest indicator that the rest of India wants to do business with the South. |
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| Deepak Lal: Caste, gene and history wars |
24-NOV-09 |
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In my July 2002 column and the preface to the revised and abridged version of my 1988 book, The Hindu Equilibrium, I noted the astonishing post-modern turn in Indian history, whose canonical book Imagining India by RB Inden claimed that caste was an invention of the colonial British Raj. |
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| A super law secretary? |
24-NOV-09 |
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Law Minister Veerappa Moily has always been one of the more intelligent members in the UPA government. |
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| Mahesh Vyas: Labour-friendly growth |
23-NOV-09 |
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It has often been argued that the acceleration in real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s took place without a corresponding acceleration in employment growth. |
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| A V Rajwade: Currency derivatives |
23-NOV-09 |
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In an article published earlier this month (For that perfect hedge, November 7), I had argued that all plain vanilla currency derivatives should be traded on exchanges to provide price transparency and guaranteed settlements; and that complex derivatives/structured products should be traded over-the-counter only on the basis of full cash collateralisation, on daily mark-to-market basis. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: 2012 and after for Ammu |
22-NOV-09 |
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National Trust’s insurance scheme and a legal guardian programme gives hope to millions for parents who worry about the future of their mentally-disabled children. |
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| 'The BJP forged a politico-business nexus in K'taka' |
22-NOV-09 |
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The recent crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka was focused on whether B S Yeddyurappa would remain as the chief minister or would the rebels get their way, or whether the BJP central leadership would succeed in affecting a compromise. |
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| V V: The Great Depression, 1929, and us |
21-NOV-09 |
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Because of the close parallels between the current global financial crisis and the Great Depression, 1929, it is no wonder that there is no end to books on what we need to do now — or what it really meant then and who was responsible for the meltdown. |
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