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This biography of the former WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan presents her journey
An excerpt from ‘At The Wheel of Research: An Exclusive Biography of Dr Soumya Swaminathan’, by Anuradha Mascarenhas.
Anuradha Mascarenhas
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Assam’s land sale ban between Hindus and Muslims may be unconstitutional – but it’s happening anyway
Scroll found that the bar on inter-faith land sales has already been unofficial policy in Barpeta district since 2019.
Vineet Bhalla & Rokibuz Zaman
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Sugar: What is it and how to cut down on its intake
Reduce added sugars and increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet to start with.
Grace Marie Jones, The Conversation
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How colonial rule could mean spinsterhood for the women of the East India Company
Young women of married sisters and orphan daughters of resident men – legitimate and illegitimate – struggled in different ways, writes Emma Roberts.
Margaret Makepeace
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Short fiction: A 79-year-old widow is shocked by her desire to dress up like a bride on her birthday
An excerpt from story ‘Her Day’ by Santanu Das, from ‘The Thief’s Funeral: The Book Review Anthology of Short Fiction’.
Santanu Das
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A decade under Modi: UPI is a gamechanger but digital divide persists
A quick look at how India has fared at improving digital connectivity in the past decade.
Ayush Tiwari
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For children: In these retellings of classic fairy tales, the protagonists are disabled women
An excerpt from ‘The Deaf Snow White’ by Kanika Agarwal in ‘And They Lived...Ever After: Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales’, edited by Rising Flames.
Kanika Agarwal
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60 years after being founded by Mehli Mehta, American Youth Symphony announces closure
Financial challenges led to the shutting down of the vibrant orchestra led by the violinist and conductor for more than 30 years.
Luis Dias
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Travel politics: Is ‘passportism’ being turned into a sly tool of racism and Islamophobia?
An excerpt from ‘Airplane Mode: A Passive-Aggressive History of Travel’, by Shahnaz Habib.
Shahnaz Habib
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Start the week with a film: In ‘The Wonder’, the strange truth behind a girl’s refusal to eat
Sebastian Lelio’s period drama, led by Florence Pugh, is available on Netflix.
Scroll Staff
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The jailing of NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha shows there was never a golden age of justice in India
The journalist, also arrested during Congress rule, has been in jail since October on terror charges, reflecting the increasing cruelty of justice system.
Nandita Haksar
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In Pawar stronghold Baramati, an election battle that reflects why Maharashtra is a challenge
With the party split and a new symbol to contest on, three-time MP Supriya Sule is up against Sunetra Pawar of the Ajit Pawar-led faction.
Smitha Nair
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‘Modi wants to be king forever’: Why ordinary voters flocked to the Save Democracy rally in Delhi
A growing disquiet over the state of Indian democracy now spills over beyond India’s elite circles.
Supriya Sharma
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Climate change is driving up food inflation globally – with catastrophic health effects
Global South countries, especially the continent of Africa, will bear the brunt of this, as is the case with other consequences of global warming.
Jessica Boxall, The Conversation & Michael Head, The Conversation
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High funding but poor results: Bangladesh struggles with Bengal tiger conservation
Weak coordination among donors and government agencies and in the absence of deliberate conservation measures are to blame, says an expert.
Farhana Parvin
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How three 18th century ‘deviant mothers’ defied social norms in their novel writing
Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson’s novels feature defiant heroines who resist the tyranny of forced marriages and indifferent parents.
Aditi Upmanyu, The Conversation
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Explained: The Katchatheevu dispute with Sri Lanka that Modi is raking up this election season
Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the Congress ‘callously gave away’ the island to Sri Lanka in 1974 is not the first time the matter has been raked up.
Nachiket Deuskar
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‘Under the Night Jasmine’: In the isolation of the pandemic, a writer finds his story – and himself
Manav Kaul’s novel evokes the unsettling days of the lockdown to ask what truths we might find if we sit still with our discomforting thoughts.
Divya Aslesha