The cup that kills
Imagine having a cup of tea in the morning and dropping dead as a result. This is not a figment of the imagination. Two families in East Delhi actually experienced such a tragedy the other day. They lost three of their relatives even as others were left battling for their lives in hospital.



Switch off the distractions
Actually, there is nothing new about what happened in Parliament on Monday. The President's address to the joint session of the two Houses -- to unveil the government's agenda at the beginning of the Budget session -- was unrelentingly interrupted by chatter, slogans and the insistent ring of the cell phone.



An involuted mindset
The views expressed by the Pakistani academics left one wondering about the vigour of conviction of orthodoxy which influenced their thought processes.



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