Japan drags itself towards an open rice market
13 December 1993Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1993 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuter) – Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Takemura said Tokyo had everyĀ intention…
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Gender Gag
Sexual harassment can be crude and overt or very subtle, but you know you are being sexually harassed when you experience it. Those around you…
NOT SELLING VOLUMES
It was a browser’s dream come trueĀ kilometres of books that took hold of the bibliophile’s heart-strings and did not stop tugging for hours. For…
FRIEND IN NEED
The Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) is everybody’s favourite bugbear. So perhaps it was inevitable that it would be accused of having a hand in the…
A BATTLE SUPREME
Titled Judiciary: AtĀtacks and Survival, the speech had been long in coming, the speaker delayed, first by an attack of diabetes in March and then…
THE DAISY’S PETALS
Itās a NAIL-BITER. I predicted in another column that the Lok pal Search Committee of eight eminent persons might cap a five-year slow waltz just…