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    Readers’ comments: Once a necessity, petrol has become a luxury for the common man

    Scroll
    · Sep 13, 2018 · 07:30 pm
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    The Daily Fix: In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress is turning a pale shade of saffron

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    · Sep 13, 2018 · 09:30 am
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    The BJP in Assam is showing signs of anxiety about citizens’ register – even as Amit Shah defends it

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Sep 13, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • ‘It’s vote-bank politics’: As support for protesting Kerala nuns grows, politicians keep away

    ‘It’s vote-bank politics’: As support for protesting Kerala nuns grows, politicians keep away

    TA Ameerudheen
    · Sep 13, 2018 · 06:30 am
  • Jammu and Kashmir: BJP supports more than 33% quota for women in panchayats, says women’s wing chief

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    Not the JCB / DSC / Hindu / Crossword prize longlist (or, you be the jury of this ‘literary award’)

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    ‘We have to seek the outlier, not the mainstream writer’: Arshia Sattar on judging literary prizes

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    The Daily Fix: Once again, the bogey of the ‘urban Naxal’ is used to criminalise political dissent

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