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MT 60 Years Ago2nd — YEAR NO. 44 – 11 June 1955 

I knew someone who used to say that ‘everything that is good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.’ He himself was fat, and an alcoholic and

“Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. When once gone no gold can buy them back again.” – Motto of the High School, Ramanathpuram, Abdul Kalam

Letter from New Delhi — Pilao, Biryani, Chappati, Samosa

If everybody is to be above the law, then let it be the case all the time, whether or not one is under the protection of the Constitution

By keeping on battering on the pillars of the State, there comes a dramatic moment, a tipping point when things can take a turn for the worst

It is never too early to pull on the alarm bells since there is a prevailing impression that the strains on our democratic institutions are being tested on

Nécrologie

“When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” — W Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

God’s Children

MT 60 Yrs — 2nd YEAR NO. 44 – 11 June 1955

MT 60 Years Ago — 2nd YEAR NO. 43 – 3rd June 1955

The Indian Naval Ship Teg is in the northern reaches of our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) these days. It accosted our Quay A for a few days. Its

Certain events this year have been sending my mind back to the forties and fifties when I used to put more time into reading novels than was good

Bookshops are universities anyone can enter. – Tony Benn The above quotation is from the October 1995 issue of the Reader’s Digest. A few years ago I visited