Profiling a billion
The joke that statistics is like a bikini-clad person, who reveals the irrelevant and hides the significant is surely apt for the census operations in our country. Otherwise, why would thieves and commercial sex workers be jointly labelled as beggars?



Spare the PF
Bimal Jalan delicately punctured some illusions this week when he said lowering interest rates on small savings would have no direct impact on the bank rate.



The selfish gene
The black sprinters, white swimmers phenomenon has dominated the sports arena for several decades. In the century-old modern Olympic Games history it was only last year at Sydney that a black swimmer won a medal.



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