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  • From the travelogue: The Hindu myth about how Ganga Sagar in West Bengal became a pilgrimage site

    From the travelogue: The Hindu myth about how Ganga Sagar in West Bengal became a pilgrimage site

    Siddharth Kapila
    · Sep 11, 2024 · 08:30 am
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    ‘I remember the virtues of my homeland’: Princess Nazli Begum, visiting London in the early 1900s

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    Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata

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  • How did the city of Tezpur in Assam get its name? The answer lies in a Hindu legend about Krishna

    How did the city of Tezpur in Assam get its name? The answer lies in a Hindu legend about Krishna

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  • ‘Maharajas, Emperors, Viceroys, Borders’: Breaking down the histories of Nepal-India border disputes

    ‘Maharajas, Emperors, Viceroys, Borders’: Breaking down the histories of Nepal-India border disputes

    Amish Raj Mulmi
    · May 11, 2024 · 05:30 pm
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    Maharashtra Lok Sabha 2024: Which political alliance will gain from the Maratha agitation?

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  • Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon? Novelist Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer

    Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon? Novelist Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer

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    Could an OBC backlash to the Maratha quota hurt the BJP?

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  • Gieve and I – and the art of friendship

    Gieve and I – and the art of friendship

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  • Mythological fiction: What happened to Krishna, the king of Dwarka, after the Great War?

    Mythological fiction: What happened to Krishna, the king of Dwarka, after the Great War?

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    · Jan 19, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘Kumaravyasa is only the scribe’: The Kannada Mahabharata from the Murty Classical Library

    ‘Kumaravyasa is only the scribe’: The Kannada Mahabharata from the Murty Classical Library

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    Watch: Reluctant pet dogs refuse to go past the cat settled on the stairs

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    A new cookbook shows how food ‘waste’ can be used for delicious recipes to be truly sustainable

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  • What a BJP convention on Valmiki Jayanti says about the fight for Dalit votes in Uttar Pradesh

    What a BJP convention on Valmiki Jayanti says about the fight for Dalit votes in Uttar Pradesh

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    ‘Arise out of the lock’: 50 Bangladeshi women poets from several generations in translation

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    Should cinema stay away from religion altogether? Here’s what Devdutt Pattanaik has to say

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  • Fiction: This retelling of the Ramayana is set in Mumbai during the riots of 1992-’93

    Fiction: This retelling of the Ramayana is set in Mumbai during the riots of 1992-’93

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