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Where streets are thronged with strays baring fangs - Gardiner Harris, NYT
Victims of the surprise attacks limp into one of this city’s biggest public hospitals. Among the hundreds on a recent day were children cornered in their homes, students ambushed on their way to class and old men ambling back from work. All told the same frightening story: stray dogs had bitten them. Deepak Kumar, 6, had an angry slash across his back from a dog...
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Train through Pakistan - Declan Walsh, New York Times
90-yr-old’s 1 lakh books in Karnataka a global hit - Riddhi Doshi, Hindustan Times
Newspaper vendor from Bangalore walks into IIM-Calcutta - Sruthy Susan Ullas, Times of India
Indian historical linguistics - Economist
Gatsby's heartbreaker - Christopher Stevens, Mail Today
The immensity of India - Adam Roberts, Times of India
An 18-year-old wunderkind named top graduating senior - Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley
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100 years of excess, a billion dreams - Shiv Visvanathan, Asian Age
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Tamil Nadu flush with pride - Somya Sethuraman, Hindu
Kota’s coaching ecosystem - Sudhanshu Mishra, Mail Today
The future of the car: Clean, safe and it drives itself - Economist
South African cricket's star is a performance analyst from India - Bharat Sundaresan, Indian Express
Mango nation - Mint
Coffee and the selfish gene - D Balasubramanian, Hindu
Garam Masala: Explosive vessels - Vikram Doctor, Economic Times
Life’s about living healthier, not longer - Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times
God of small things - Sweta Goswami, Pioneer
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When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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