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The trip of the latest passenger, Kamala Shastri, is marred by a serious problem whose resolution poses a moral dilemma for Michael, the man who sent her.
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The PMO answered only two questions of the RTI application saying it has only one classified document pertaining to the death of Shastri which is exempted from disclosure under the RTI Act. It sent rest of the questions to Ministry of External Affairs and Home Ministry to answer.
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Peter Pringle & James Spigelman, The Nuclear Barons Within weeks Bhabha was calling for a nuclear deterrent, and in a few months Indian prime-minister Lal Bahadur Shastri gave the go-ahead.
Jamyang Norbu: Who Created Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal? Jamyang Norbu 2011
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"Out!" intoned Shastri, switching to imminent nuclear disaster mode as suddenly Mumbai became a panorama of ashen faces, trembling lips and big tears behind big glasses.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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Benaud did it with a mastery of laconic understatement that is at dramatic odds with the excessive, cartoonish excitability and tendency to hype of some modern-day commentators, for example Danny Morrison, who is at least sometimes entertaining, or Ravi Shastri whom I call "Tracer Bullet," as according to him about 50% of boundaries are hit like one of those.
Cricket Commentary Veers off Target Richard Lord 2012
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In fact Curtly's curtness was a pleasant balm to the bombast and phoniness of even the most well-intentioned and unarguably necessary awards do, an impression not immediately dispelled by the appearance of the hosts, an unlikely sandwiching together of Gaby Logan and Ravi Shastri.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards 2011
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The first-choice commentating trio featured Lloyd, Arnold and Ravi Shastri, a man whose every utterance assumes the tone and timbre of a man announcing that war has just broken out in mainland Europe.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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"Unfortunately MS isn't here…" Shastri announced, and there was sense of bafflement at the absence of India's captain.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards 2011
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Backward point, Shastri declared, as though delivering terrible news about Belgium's air defences.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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He in his condolence message to the members of the family of Shastri ji conveyed heart-felt condolences and sympathies.
Padam Shri Awardee Ram Nath Shastri���Icon of Dogras and Dogri litterateur passes away in Jammu(J&K) 2009
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