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OPINION
| The negative side of positive |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged us all recently to shed ‘negativity’. I kept looking long and hard for ‘positivity’ between the rolling hills of scams, the deepening crisis in the economy and the emotional brotherhood between cricket and bookies, but alas ‘positivity’ proved to be as elusive as the pimpernel. And then suddenly there it was, in the middle of Calcutta. |
| Success gone awry? |
| Western politicians and media have been scolding Turkey’s prime minister Recep Erdogan over this past week’s anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara. |
| Myanmar’s moment? |
| Interest in Myanmar (Burma) has become intense. Last month, Thein Sein became the first president of Myanmar to visit the White House in nearly 50 years, and leaders from British Prime Minister David Cameron to India’s Manmohan Singh to Japan’s Shinzo Abe have all visited Yangon. |
| Prejudice but not pride |
| The office looked more like a palace reception than a lounge of a bank. |
| Asia’s new triangle |
| With China’s aggressive assertion of its territorial claims causing general concern, it has taken to wooing one of its major rivals — India. While not spurning China’s move, India is striving to broaden its diplomatic and military support. |
| Sizing up shopping habits |
| Whoever said that you cannot sell something to someone who doesn’t need it didn’t know women and their preposterous buying habits. |
| He, me and ‘i’ |
| I was in the middle of some editing work. My editor had told me to “insert something funny” in the middle of chapter 9, in order to stop it from becoming monotonous. |
| America’s war criminals |
| Society should have means to punish people like Kissinger, Bush |
| Talking Turkey |
| Erdogan’s future depends on contemplating judicious compromises |
| Limits of oil power |
| Thanks to the bountiful oil under its desert sands and an equally plentiful supply of foreign labour – skilled and non-skilled – Saudi Arabia has enjoyed a booming economy. |
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