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Sunday, May 3, 1998
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Who is the hunter and who is the hunted?
The picturesque Simlipal Hills in Mayurbhanj reverberate with hunters' cries during the Baisakh period from April to May. Tribals armed with bows, arrows, tangis (hunting axes), spears and knives sneak into the Simlipal National Park and Tiger Reserve to observe their ritualistic "mass hunting excursion", better known as the akhand shikar. Hunting is, in fact, one of earliest of Santal rituals and one in which all the men in the community participate.
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Inside Track
Mind your language -- Will the new Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, an educationist himself, finally give the ministry the priority it deserves? Arjun Singh as HRD minister spent more time conspiring against P.V. Narasimha Rao and filling up key posts in the ministry with unqualified loyalists, rather than attending to the cause of education.
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Cola as karma
This, of course, is just a hunch, but if the cola czars could have it their way, they would reinvent the human body and create a being, comprising just a mouth, two kidneys, with perhaps a bladder thrown in. A being that is built like a sponge to soak up litre upon litre of a brownish, sweetish, cold-ish, gaseous libation which has, probably, done more business around the globe than any other consumable.
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State-of-the-art: Maharashtra first state with own website
Maharashtra has become the first State in the cauntry to go on the web with Chief Minister Manohar Joshi formally inaugurating the State Government's own site on internet on Maharashtra Day. The site can be accessed at http://www.maharashtra.gov.in from all over the world. The website would make available information regarding various State subjects in both Marathi and English.
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