Of course, this being India, the disease of sycophancy is impossible to completely eradicate.

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Partly because the press feels guilty at the moment: aware that it hounded John Major and his government, ashamed of its initial sycophancy towards Mr Blair.

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Are interviewees rewarded for sycophancy?

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