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A hellish thirst in God's Own Country
Kerala has 44 rivers. It is blessed by ample rainfall. Yet its ground water levels are falling, its rivers, canals, lakes and backwaters are shrinking, and its people -- the State has a population density of 787 people per sq km -- are reeling under a severe shortage of potable water.
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A fancy for sycophancy
Vincent George, factotum extraordinaire and secretary at large, had just-finished indenting the garlands (single-stringed/multi-stringed, jasmine, marigold, rose) and the bouquets (with cane baskets or in plain cellophane) that Madam Sonia Gandhi, daughter-in-law to the nation, wife to the nation, and now Congress President to the nation, received at the just-concluded Siri Fort AICC session in Delhi.
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Inside Track
Justice Jain's interim report exploded with a bang. Nearly 6,000 words in 17 volumes replete with unsubstantiated charges and the needle of suspicion swinging wildly like a compass needle in a tin mine. But the final report has ended in a whimper with less than 2,000 words in two volumes, one of which consists merely of annexures.
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"I am against hate politics, we can't be anti-something"
Former Union industries minister Murasoli Maran is a front runner to take over the reigns of the DMK from his uncle, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The 64-year-old Maran is the party's ideologue.
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