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    Voters must be told the true cost of every political free lunch

    As the mess in Sri Lanka shows, the public must understand that there can be no free lunches and the bill has to be paid at some date

    Suvashis Maitra
    November 02, 2022 / 10:50 IST
    Representative image (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
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