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  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
  • Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
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    Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
  • Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
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    Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
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Watch: Play briefly delayed due to setting sun during WBBL 08 final – ‘Oh cricket, never change’

A rare occasion in cricket when the sun is shining too bright for play to be possible.

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Nov 26, 2022 · 02:50 pm Updated Nov 26, 2022 · 02:51 pm
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Watch: Play briefly delayed due to setting sun during WBBL 08 final – ‘Oh cricket, never change’
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"I don't understand why we're waiting"...

... "I need to be able to see!"

Play has been delayed due to the sun being in the batters eyes in the WBBL final ☀️🏏 pic.twitter.com/XLFTiBFqOm

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) November 26, 2022

Oh cricket, never change pic.twitter.com/6swb2yBuiC

— Jarrod Kimber (@ajarrodkimber) November 26, 2022

As @kmarty01 mentioned on commentary, play being stopped for sun isn't totally unique - it's happened in Napier before.

A New Zealand-India ODI in 2019 had the same problem (report from the day via @ESPNcricinfo) #WBBL08 pic.twitter.com/9rxqQhoOeK

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) November 26, 2022
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