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(1)Local farmers were, and are, given prime public spots to sell their
produce to consumers, thus eliminating retail
  commisions that reached 100%, a situation not unfamiliar to
India.(source-hindustatn times-thursday, april 12,2012)

(2)In 1993, when 11% of its 2.5 million people lived in absolute
poverty  and a fifth of Belo's children went hungry, a
  newly-elected goverment declared that food was a fundamental right
of every citizen, much as India willl do when it
  passess the right to Food Act sometime this year.(source-hindustan
times friday, may 04,2012)

(3)Later on TV, a beautiful social worker asked the anchor
innocently:" why do cartoons always have tobe so critical? why
 can't they show something noce?"(hindustan times-monday, april 16,2012)

(4)The cartoon, a spoof of a couple of scenes in Satyajit Ray's
classic film, sonar kella, was genuinely funny.
   (hindustan times-monday, april 16,2012)

(5)And it will help provide some political and economic ballast to
Pakistan, a country whose past hostility has not been able
  to hold back India's rise but whose collapse would genuinely
endanger India's future.(hindustan times-tuesday, april 10,
  2012)

(6)You could take in the stench of the docks and other human
excretiions, a unique blend found in very few other places on
 earth.(hindustan times-tueday, may 1,2012)

(7)In India's trobled conflict areas, a healing touch would require a
new commitment to human rights, including by ending
 and punishing encounter killings and torture, and abrogating laws
like the Armed Forces Act.(source-hindustan times Monday,
 June 04,2012)

(8)Writing in these pages on the Rio earth summit, which concluded
last week, a senior environmental journalist expressed
 the opinion that the global meeting- which was tasked with shaping a
route for the world to reduce poverty, advance
 social equity and ensure environmental protection-would fail to
achieve anything substantial.
(hindustan times-Monday, june 25,2012)

(9)The first cast that got people talking about the need for providing
a safety cover for whistleblowers was the killing
 of  NHAI officer Satyendra Dubey, a civil engineering graduate form
the IIT, in 2003 in gaya.(source-hindustan time
 Wednesday, May 23, 2012)

(10) IT is a truism that in most social systems, whether in business
or politics, a buy-in of all stakeholders is an
 essential prerequisite for any fundamental and lasting
change.lot.(source-hindustan times Monday May 07, 2012)