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Mitra Sharafi
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How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India
While many abortion cases in colonial India were those of Hindu widows, the colonial state rarely prosecuted them.
Mitra Sharafi
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Why the US can't claim to have been India's colonial cousin in its struggle against the British
Americans broke with Britain not as a colonised people, but as a group of overtaxed and underrepresented settlers who were themselves busily colonising others.
Mitra Sharafi
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Snoop Dogg feels the bite of Parsi legal culture
Since the nineteenth century, members of the Parsi community have turned to law to resolve religious issues. But the case of the American rapper is different.
Mitra Sharafi
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress