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  • A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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    A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
  • A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
  • ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
  • How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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    How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city

  • ‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
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    ‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
  • Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
  • Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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    Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
  • How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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    How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
  • Uttarakhand renames Aurangzebpur as Shivaji Nagar, 16 other places citing ‘public sentiment’
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    Uttarakhand renames Aurangzebpur as Shivaji Nagar, 16 other places citing ‘public sentiment’
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    ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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