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Corrections and clarifications

* In an article “A writer as the conscience of Africa” (Op-Ed, June 26, 2009) a reference to Wole Soyinka having “held out the [Nobel] Prize in the direction of the African contingent” after receiving it at the prize ceremony in Stockholm (paragraph 13), has appeared erroneously as “the African continent”.

A sentence in the 12th paragraph was “After the death of Abacha when democracy was restored in Nigeria in 1990, Soyinka returned to a hero’s welcome in Lagos.” The year should have been 1999.

* In a report “Maoist death squads executed dozens around Lalgarh” (June 25, 2009), two sentences were incomplete in some early editions. In the fifth paragraph the sentence “Most of the killings were concentrated in the twin blocks of Binpur and adjoining Salboni — the precise areas where the Maoist-backed Committee Against Police Atrocities”, should have been “Most of the killings were concentrated in the twin blocks of Binpur and adjoining Salboni — the heartland of the Lalgrah violence.”

In the 12th paragraph, the sentence “Pelaram Tudu, a locally-renowned football player who supported the, was shot dead in another death-squad attack”, should have been “Pelaram Tudu, a locally-renowned football player who supported the CPI(M), was shot dead in another death-squad attack.”

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