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We cut teacher's palm, they...
  By Balvinder Singh  
  BANDHS, hartals, effigy burnings and the like are the popular ways in which we Indians protest, even at the drop of a hat. And, perhaps, no day passes by when ....  
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  DEVOTIONAL  
 
   
Shocking "gospel"
  By Terry Mattingly  
  ANYONE who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer knows that they are highly ritualized affairs. Officers will be elected. Political issues will be discussed. ....  
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  COUNSELING
 
Judges, judge thyself
 
  By Dominic Emmanuel, SVD  
  IN ancient India which virtually lived in its thousands of villages, most of the conflicts or disagreements were settled by the village panchyats through the judgment passed by the five ....  
     
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  LETTERS  
   
  Apropos "Church should rethink homosexuality stance". Whether or not they are accepted may not make much difference to the mindset of homosexuals or to the number of those who turn ....  
  By Serene  
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  ARTICLES
  Education, not militarism  
  PFI's dangerous path  
   
  LAST week I happened to watch Asianet News in which Chairman of the Popular Front of India (PFI) Nasruddin Elamaram answered some questions from Unni in what is the "equivalent" ......  
 
By A.J. Philip
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  Shadows of past  
  Notes on Ceausescu's Romania  
   
  LIVED history is always hard to explain. There is a lack of objectivity in every story. I was in the sixth grade when the revolution of 1989 happened and Nicolae ......  
 
By Mihaela Gligor
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  Spears, not Savanur  
  Filth-bath and mainstream media  
   
  THE 22-page 'mainstream newspaper' I subscribe to carried a small story of the visit of Karnataka Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai to Savanur town of Haveri district on July 22. ......  
 
By T.N. Sushama
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  NEWS
  Dhaka rehab center helps female addicts  
     
  By ucanews.com reporter, Dhaka A FORMER Church-run drug rehabilitation center for men in Dhaka is now working wonders for many of Bangladesh's female addicts. Ashokti Punorbashon Nibash (APON) has brought .......  
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  'Underground’ priest detained yet again  
     
  By ucanews.com, Beijing OFFICIALS in northern China's Hebei province have rearrested Father Peter Wang Zhong of Xiwanzi moments before he could walk to freedom following a three-year prison term. Sources .......  
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  Malaysian High Court to hear conversion case  
     
  By ucanews.com reporter, Kuala Lumpur A MALAYSIAN Hindu woman, whose three children were converted to Islam by their father without her knowledge, was today allowed a full trial to .......  
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  Priest rejects Indian maid homicide claim  
     
  By Ritu Sharma, New Delhi A MAID in a northern Indian parish hanged herself at a church center over a disappointment in love but her family is now trying .......  
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  Blasphemy is now a death sentence  
     
  MANY won't agree with this claim and consider it over-exaggerated. But they must then explain how the insult to a holy personage can be tantamount to the death sentence when .......  
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  Girl commits suicide in church building  
     
  A 19-YEAR-OLD girl allegedly committed suicide inside a church building in Chandigarh. The girl, identified as Maya, took the extreme step on July 23 inside the Navjeevan Don Bosco church after .......  
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  TRAVEL
   
  By Simi Thambi  
  MY joy knew no bounds when in June last I was invited to take part in a model United Nations Conference hosted by Duisburg University at Duisburg in the Northern ....  
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  By Ram Puniyani  
  THIS June 18, 2010, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits, including women and children, visited the temple of Mata Kheer Bhavani in Tullamula, 20 kms from Srinagar. It was the sacred day ....  
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  OUR OPINION  
  Bitter truth about Bhopal  
  By A.J. Philip  
     
  TRUTH can be bitter but even the bitterest truth is better than the sweetest falsehood. There is a popular saying, "give anything but not hope". Yet falsehood and false hopes ....  
     
 
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  ACHIEVERS
Sonnet who breathes sonnets
  A.J. Philip  
  Dr Sonnet Mondal is young, both as a person and a poet. In fact, he started his poetic career as recently as in 2005. Yet, he has accomplished a lot ....  
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  BOOKS
Forster's tumultous life
  Colm Toibin  
  IN 1943, the critic Lionel Trilling wrote a book about the work of E. M. Forster without knowing that the novelist was homosexual. Trilling had enough to write about, including ....  
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  EDUCATIONAL
Aptitude testing
  Sunit Dhawan  
  SHIPRA has just completed her XII in the non-medical stream from a small town near the national Capital. She has quite a few entrance exams lined up before her and ....  
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  JOBS & CAREERS
     
  Church creates jobs  
  By Saji Thomas, Sagar A CHURCH program in central India is harnessing government schemes to help jobless people find work and improve lives in poverty-stricken villages. Dinesh Kumar Namdev, from ....  
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