National interest
Please do pause for a moment and think of the implications of the peculiar mindset where the question many of us ask is not whether Bill Clinton is visiting India or not, but whether he will stop over in Pakistan on his way or not.



Rational expectations
Going by the initial reactions of the trade unions in Modern Food to the takeover by Hindustan Lever, the process of selling public sector units to private sector players appears to be off to a good start.



Heartbeat of a nation
The tabla is an essential but unprepossessing instrument, occupying a complementary place on stage, never a central one. It required genius to make the tabla assume the high seriousness, the grandeur of instruments of more regal descent like the sitar or sarod.



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