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Politics
The real scam is the fake (pro-poor) image
As south Bengal votes, the poster argues the Saradha chit fund scam exposes Mamata Banerjee’s pro-poor image, accusing her of refusing fare rises that hurt the poor, and notes that…
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A million donors needed (registry for stem cells)
A report on the first Indian thalassemia patient to get stem cells from an unrelated donor, with the poster’s call for more registrations and for NGOs to work with religious…
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Culture
Meeting your lost brother (after 42 years)
The poster adds to a columnist’s account of visiting Bangladesh and old Bengali schoolmates that the key contrast is cricket: Pakistan has hosted no international matches since the 2009 attack…
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Politics
So…the Modi interview was doctored
On the Prasar Bharati chief’s admission that Doordarshan edited Modi’s interview, the poster says the bureaucracy is eager to please political masters and the row is thin milk beside the…
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The many avatars of Veena Malik
A sardonic four-stage profile of actor Veena Malik, from Bollywood to returning to Pakistan in conservative dress and saying she has matured, with a Dawn report of her return.
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Bodo vs. Muslim battle restarts (Kokrajhar, Axom)
On renewed killings of Muslim villagers in Assam, the poster argues that tribal and upper-caste groups have united against alleged illegal Bangladeshi migrants, wonders about church activists’ silence, and says…
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2,800 dead (Nahrin, Afghanistan)
A Reuters report on earthquakes that destroyed Nahrin in northern Afghanistan, with about 1,500 feared dead and thousands homeless, and the poster’s remark that nature now adds to man-made miseries.
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Audacious Ad by UKIP
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Cold war alliance restored in Afghanistan
A short comment, with quoted news extracts, arguing that Afghan requests for arms from India and Russia complete rival alliances (Russia, India and Iran against Saudi Arabia, the GCC and…
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Only in Pakistan.
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