Dasgupta is at his best as an analyst of futility, both ideological and personal.

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One does not have to agree with Mr Dasgupta's conclusion to acknowledge that markets have their limits.

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To harness local energies effectively, it is particularly important to give local people secure property rights, argues Mr Dasgupta.

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They enlisted lawyer Debaleena Dasgupta, who said they should try to bring a civil case against the Met Police.

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His fellow politicians do not know how to handle such a confident loner, says Swapan Dasgupta, an observer of the party.

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Mr Dasgupta argues that this distortion of trade amounts to a massive subsidy of rich-world consumption paid by the world's poorest people.

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Debaleena Dasgupta, a lawyer who specialises in representing rape victims, said renaming the unit was a "complete rebranding exercise" that changed nothing at all.

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Job seekers, who sometimes aren't clear in stating their requirements, are to blame for misdirected applications, said Sanjay Dasgupta, head of the JobSerf team in Visakhapatnam.

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Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, a little formulaic, but also graced with an ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.

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Lord Rees, along with Cambridge philosopher Huw Price and economist Sir Partha Dasgupta and Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, wants the proposed Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to evaluate such threats.

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