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Superstitions
Nov 8 2009, K.R.RAVI

Of Politicians, Goats and Monkeys.

This is a phenomenon that I have seen frequently in Tamil families but here I wish to see this in a lighter vein. It happened that my friend Srinivasan, my colleague who was then 37 and a bachelor, came to me...

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