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OP-EDWhat after ‘what next?’
Shekhar Bhatia
Nov.20 : "What do a Boeing 777 and a Bar-tailed Godwit have in common?"
The question was asked by Dr Steven Chu, the US energy secretary, during a talk he gave at IIT-Delhi last week. A US-born Chinese-American, Steven Chu is a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Victimspeak
Robin Sharma
Nov.20 : Back to a theme I shared with readers in The Greatness Guide. Words shape the way you feel. They influence the way you proceed reality. And they can either take you closer to your mountain-top or draw you nearer to the valley. Use world-class words and you’ll get to your world-class life.
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Legislator haazir ho!
Somnath Chatterjee
Nov 19 : The recent incident in the Maharashtra Assembly where an aggressive physical effort was made to stop a legislator from taking oath in Hindi was a deliberate attack on the Constitution. We are all free to speak in our mother tongue and take oath in any of the languages included
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