CALCUTTAĀ -THE CITY THAT REFUSES TO DIEĀ Ā
Nowhere else in India do people engulf you as they do in Calcutta. From the moment you step off your train or plane, and begin…
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PHILIPPINE SENATE HARDENS STAND ON DEBT
11 May 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, May 11, Reuter – The Philippine Senate has ended a six-month lull by taking…
Jayme says no magic fix for Philippine debt
31 May 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, May 31, Reuter – There are no magical solutions to the Philippines’ heavy foreign…
TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY – THE PHILIPPINES’ DEBT DEBATE
5 June 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 5, Reuter – To pay or not ā that is the question facing…
Philippine debate over debt payments alarms foreign banksĀ
6 June 1988Ā The Toronto StarĀ FINĀ B4Ā EnglishĀ Copyright (c) 1988 The Toronto StarĀ MANILA, Philippines — “No one‘s talking new money, so we…
CALCUTTA’S INDIANS TAKE ELECTIONS IN STRIDE
21 November 1989Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1989 Reuters LimitedĀ Calcutta, Nov 21, Reuters – The six Bengalis splashing around a fire hydrant inches from…
INTERVIEW-Pakistan says US policies polarise world
14 April 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited ISLAMABAD, April 14 (Reuters) – Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror,…
CALCUTTA IS FOEVER
Thirty years ago, a dishevelled man leaned across and shouted at me in the smoke-filled, raucous Olympia bar on Calcutta’s Park Street: “Calcutta is forever!”…
Friend in Need
The Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) is everybody’s favourite bugbear. So perhaps it was inevitable that it would be accused of having a hand in the…
Killing me Softly
Death is inevitable, but not in a gas chamber He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind,…
APOCALYPSE NOW
Forget global warming and focus on local warnings Kanpur, Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur. Nine of the world’s ten most polluted cities…
The Air is Thick
On Earth Day, let’s look at what our politicians promise on air pollution The Good news is that both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress…