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Murali Ranganathan
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Jayant Meghani (1938-2020): Remembering the meticulous bookseller of Bhavnagar
How a Gujarati bookstore in Bhavnagar achieved cult status thanks to its founder, who died on December 4, at the age of 82.
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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
An extraordinary life of industrial strength writing, cut short by the killer disease.
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How an Anglo-Gujarati newspaper kept publishing through the Bombay plague and into the 1980s
The long and eventful history of the weekly ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’.
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Will you marry her?: CJI asks man accused of raping minor, grants protection from arrest
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China targeted Indian power grid after Galwan Valley clash, suggests study: NYT
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Can god be disproved using the laws of physics? An expert explains how it depends on perspective
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Covid-19: Little evidence for surface transmission – so you can stop disinfecting every object
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Ramachandra Guha: Despite denouncing the Mughal and British empires, Modi is imitating their hubris
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On JV Naik’s first death anniversary, remembering a life spent in pursuit of historical heroes
In his final years, he expressed dismay over declining research in India and politicisation of the country’s history.
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How the first English novels by Parsis were written in the backdrop of the plague and politics
The histories of the novels ‘My Friend, The Barrister’ and ‘Pootli, A Story of Life in Bombay’.
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How the name of a Gujarati language printer and publisher who died in the plague lives on in Mumbai
Jehangir B Karani’s business rose, fell and then rose again posthumously.
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Watch the unveiling of a golden Donald Trump statue by US conservatives
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On camera: Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vandra go dancing in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Assam
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Watch: Workers of Paris’s unique zinc rooftops from 19th century fear their iconic trade is ‘dying’
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Watch: On Tamil Nadu visit, Rahul Gandhi takes on class 10 student in a push-up challenge
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How a Gujarati cookbook came to symbolise love and gratitude during the bubonic plague in Bombay
The story of Vividha Vaani.
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Mumbai has forgotten the ‘leading historian’ who once highlighted its forgotten past
JRB Jeejeebhoy, who wrote numerous pieces on the city and its heritage from the 1920s to the 1950s, has met the fate of his subjects.
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