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      In images: Day after Kolkata flower market demolitions, vendors return to work and hope for the best

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      The journalist who asked Modi a question

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      Paan once symbolised courtly status in India. Then it became an unsanitary, ‘native’ habit

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      The Indian freedom fighter who ended his career as a captain on ‘Star Trek’

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      How India’s ambitious plan to curb unhealthy food failed

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      ‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80

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      View from Bangladesh: On border killings, Dhaka is helping defend New Delhi’s use of lethal force

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      This book asks why Kerala, long ruled by the Left, has not succeeded in annihilating caste

      Sharika Thiranagama
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      ‘They have sold themselves’: At ‘cockroach’ gathering in Delhi, protestors rage against the system

      Anant Gupta
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      ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters

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      Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others

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  • The destiny of Assam’s millions rests on documents that fade, fray, go missing in the floods

    The destiny of Assam’s millions rests on documents that fade, fray, go missing in the floods

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Jul 20, 2019 · 09:00 am
  • Humans of Assam: This activist’s family survived riots, but is anxious about surviving NRC

    Humans of Assam: This activist’s family survived riots, but is anxious about surviving NRC

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Jul 19, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Death by Citizenship: They made it to NRC, but were dropped later – tagged as suspected foreigners

    Death by Citizenship: They made it to NRC, but were dropped later – tagged as suspected foreigners

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Jul 17, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Humans of Assam: This school teacher failed the NRC test – even though his son cleared it

    Humans of Assam: This school teacher failed the NRC test – even though his son cleared it

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Jul 15, 2019 · 09:00 am
  • For a month, we bring you a story about Assam’s National Register of Citizens every day. Here’s why

    For a month, we bring you a story about Assam’s National Register of Citizens every day. Here’s why

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Jul 15, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Nine reasons the Delhi government plan to install CCTV cameras inside classrooms is a bad idea

    Nine reasons the Delhi government plan to install CCTV cameras inside classrooms is a bad idea

    Aditi Agrawal
    · Jul 13, 2019 · 11:00 am
  • Opinion: Ranjit Singh’s new statue in Lahore isn’t the problem – the way it’s being celebrated is

    Opinion: Ranjit Singh’s new statue in Lahore isn’t the problem – the way it’s being celebrated is

    Ali Usman Qasmi, Dawn.com
    · Jul 04, 2019 · 01:30 pm
  • Did England’s King Alfred the Great send two envoys to Christian shrines in India in 9th century?

    Did England’s King Alfred the Great send two envoys to Christian shrines in India in 9th century?

    Caitlin R Green
    · Jun 26, 2019 · 11:30 am
  • To battle Modi’s Hindu-Hindi majoritarianism, states must demand greater equality of rights

    To battle Modi’s Hindu-Hindi majoritarianism, states must demand greater equality of rights

    Partha Chatterjee
    · Jun 25, 2019 · 12:30 pm
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    ‘Freedom for some is freedom for none’: South African musician Jonas Gwangwa’s jazz of resistance

    Gwen Ansell, The Conversation
    · Jun 20, 2019 · 11:30 pm
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    How Adam Smith became the patron saint of capitalism

    Glory M Liu, Aeon
    · Jun 18, 2019 · 11:30 pm
  • In Bengal, speak Bengali: Squeezed by BJP’s Hindutva, Mamata Banerjee grasps at Bengali nationalism

    In Bengal, speak Bengali: Squeezed by BJP’s Hindutva, Mamata Banerjee grasps at Bengali nationalism

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Jun 16, 2019 · 09:00 am
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    In Meghalaya, tribal communities join hands to ensure that the hoolock gibbon’s song stays alive

    Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya
    · Jun 10, 2019 · 01:30 pm
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    ‘Basanti’: A classic but experimental Odia novel from the 1920s is reinvented in English translation

    Tyagraj Thakur
    · Jun 08, 2019 · 12:30 pm
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    Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader’s imagination

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    · Jun 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm
  • What do Indians vote for? New study indicates that development is not a priority

    What do Indians vote for? New study indicates that development is not a priority

    Benita Chacko, IndiaSpend.com
    · May 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm
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    Readers’ comments: Foreign media criticism of Modi is ‘intellectual nonsense and hostile journalism’

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    · May 26, 2019 · 07:30 pm
  • Meet Marilyn Booth, translator of the Man Booker International Prize winner ‘Celestial Bodies’

    Meet Marilyn Booth, translator of the Man Booker International Prize winner ‘Celestial Bodies’

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    · May 23, 2019 · 05:30 pm
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    The Election Fix liveblog: Narendra Modi & BJP are on track to better their 2014 performance

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    · May 23, 2019 · 07:48 am
  • Between Mamata and Modi’s populism, the bhadralok is now a marginal player in Bengal’s politics

    Between Mamata and Modi’s populism, the bhadralok is now a marginal player in Bengal’s politics

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · May 19, 2019 · 09:00 am
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