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Sunday, August 17 1997
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Humbug or honesty, stagnation or growth?![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
Now that we've got our 50th birthday celebrations out of the way, the question is, how we want to run our lives for, say, the next fifty. At the moment, there doesn't seem any option, in the economic realm, except to speed up the process of liberalisation.
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Dying, they raised slogans
Popular patriotic singer Pradeep sang to the refrain of Vande Matram showing children the famous sites of the country's freedom movement. At Amritsar in Punjab, the song soared with: "Jallianwala Bagh yeh dekho, Yahan chali thhi goliyan, Marane waale bol rahe thhe, Inquilab ki boliyan."
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Wanted conscientious selectors
The Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu had written: "Conflict among leaders are a significant challenge because the fates of so many others are affected by the outcome." His sixth century BC writing couldn't be truer when applied to the selection of the Indian cricket team.
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The Group
