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A salute to Orhan Pamuk
The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 to Orhan Pamuk — "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures" — is as much a tribute to his ...

Educating small investors
Making individuals aware of the risks and rewards associated with specific investment options has never before been as vital to public policy as it is today. Financial sector reform implies deregulation and the controlled regime yielding place to ...

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Warming will cost trillions, says report
By Larry Elliott

FAILURE TO take action to combat climate change will cost the global economy $20 trillion a year by the end of the century, says the pressure group Friends of the Earth. In a report, released on Friday, based on research from more than 100 ...

Corrections and clarifications
* A reader wanted to know what the correct spelling of the Sri Lankan President is, having noticed that it has been changed from Mahinda Rajapakse to Mahinda Rajapaksa. The official spelling is Rajapaksa, B. Muralidhar Reddy clarifies, and the ...

Nobel for a writer, not his politics
By Maureen Freely

For Orhan Pamuk, now, his books will come first.

Minority rights — and wrongs
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

The provision to treat the minorities as a favoured category is not to hold them as a privileged class over the majority.

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"Kiran has a clear vision of life"
"There is no sentimentality. There is no hypocrisy. She is honest. She sees the complexity of life," saysAnita Desai.

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