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Readers’ comments: Veg vs ‘non-veg’ debate should consider the industrialisation of meat production
Responses to articles in Scroll.in.
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Reading list: Nine books by Indian-American writers that address urgent global problems
Books on the politics of immigration, detailed studies of lethal illnesses, a memoir of an estranged family, a history of revolutions, and more.
Scroll Staff
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
Haile Selassie spent three weeks travelling across India and even attended an international Test match.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
Prithviraj Sukumaran stars in Blessy’s adaptation of Benyamin’s best-selling novel ‘Goat Days’.
Nandini Ramnath
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
The Kotak firm did not donate to any other political party.
Ayush Tiwari & Project Electoral Bond
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From the biography: Ram Vilas Paswan’s role in implementing the Mandal Commission report
An excerpt from ‘Ram Vilas Paswan: The Weathervane of Indian Politics’, by Sobhana K Nair.
Sobhana K Nair
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Captain’s log: The Indian Premier League has become a grooming ground for new captains
The two longest serving IPL captains, MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, are not leading their respective teams this season.
Shahid Judge
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
With dismal basic education and a bleak job market, private tuition offer aspirational youngsters the best shot at clearing government recruitment tests.
Santosh Mehrotra & Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
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Why the antidote to our lack of time may lie in the natural world
Being in nature may change how we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense of time abundance.
Ruth Ogden, The Conversation & Jessica Thompson, The Conversation
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
Eutelsat OneWeb, which is in prime position to get satellite spectrum without an auction, is owned by Bharti Enterprises, UK government, SoftBank, among others.
Ragamalika Karthikeyan, Anand Mangnale , Neel Madhav & Project Electoral Bond
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With gaps and overreach, who does the Uttarakhand uniform civil code actually help?
The regressive practices of personal laws have been retained while giving leeway to Hindu Undivided Families and slapping restrictions on live-in relationships.
Charu Bahri, IndiaSpend.com
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EBRD Literature Prize shortlist: This Arabic novel explores the struggle to make sense of death
An excerpt from ‘This Thing Called Love’, by Alawiya Sobh. Translated by Max Weiss.
Alawiya Sobh & Max Weiss
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An Indian journalist recalls the day President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul as the Taliban took over
An excerpt from ‘The Fall of Kabul: Despatches from Chaos’, by Nayanima Basu.
Nayanima Basu
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How Bengaluru’s water crisis is rooted in the neglect of its lakes
For years, lakes helped give the city steady water supply. But lopsided growth pushed out traditional users and left lakes shrunken and polluted.
Vaishnavi Rathore & Johanna Deeksha
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Bhima Koregaon: A new book recounts how 16 activists were imprisoned as terrorists, without trial
An excerpt from ‘The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India’, by Alpa Shah.
Alpa Shah
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
The star of ‘Scam 1992’, ‘Madgaon Express’ and an upcoming show on Mahatma Gandhi’s years in South Africa discusses his approach to acting.
Deepa Gahlot
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Of Rs 945 crore bonds donated by drug firms, most went to parties ruling states with pharma units
Only states can take punitive action against firms for substandard drugs. But the BJP got donations even from firms based in non-BJP states.
Tabassum Barnagarwala, Nandini Chandrashekar, Maria Teresa Raju, Anjana Meenakshi & Project Electoral Bond
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How the brain’s clock speeds up around middle age can determine future health and dementia
Middle age could be a period to detect early risk factors of future cognitive decline while a window of opportunity to intervene is still open.
Sebastian Dohm-Hansen Allard, The Conversation & Yvonne Nolan, The Conversation