On 8 November, I had less than 2 dollars’ worth of valid currency in my pocket to live on. For one day, this placed me below the World Bank’s poverty line, but quite a bit above the one drawn by the Rangarajan Committee.
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One of the biggest issues which helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi capture power in 2014 was the promise to crack down on corruption and black money. Midway in his tenure, he has announced scrapping of currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs.
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Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his government’s plan to withdraw Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes from circulation at a mere four hours’ notice, much anxiety has prevailed among Indians resident in the country and elsewhere.
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In 1970, the German writer Arno Schmidt published his magnum opus, a novel called “Zettel’s Traum.” Its narrator is Dan Pagenstecher, an aging writer who lives in the fictional village of Ödingen and is an expert on Edgar Allan Poe.
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America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb. I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.
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Can there be a collective search for paradigms and pathways towards a world that is sustainable, equitable and just? How can such frameworks and visions build on an existing heritage of ideas and worldviews and cultures, and on past or new grassroots practice? How can they be fundamentally d
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Like many Englishmen who suffered from tuberculosis in the 19th century, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor went abroad on medical advice, seeking the drier air of warmer regions. Tylor came from a prosperous Quaker business family, so he had the resources for a long trip.
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