The new Russian thriller
The shadowy man, picked up from the KGB archives and put in the Kremlin by Boris Yeltsin. That was Vladimir Putin for the media and the world beyond the Russian Federation.



Hands in the cookie jar
Those of you who are old enough may remember the days when only Britannia ruled. Not the waves though, but dough. Most of the leavened, baked, sliced bread was factory-produced under that brand name.



Can you have too much tolerance?
There is "too much tolerance" among Hindus, That the ``Hindu point of view'' is not projected in West and ``it is necessary to educate people in the West that the expansionist Christian view is not the only way".



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