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The 26-year-old became the first Indian weightlifter to win a silver medal at the Olympics.
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1Philosophy: The teachings of Taoism are offered to a contemporary readership in this new book
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2All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse
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3A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
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4How Trump could hurt India’s ability to forecast the monsoon
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5‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
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6‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
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7Why Sri Lankan activists opposed Adani wind energy project in Mannar
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8The UK wants to ban first-cousin marriages – but there’s an ethical challenge
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9Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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10‘A creative narrative based on facts’: How anthropologist Irawati Karve’s biography was written
