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

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    The story of ‘Chocolate’, the Hindi story published in 1924 that created a furore over homosexuality

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    · Mar 23, 2019 · 12:30 pm
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    The identity politics of gender: Why more than 40% of Trinamool candidates are women

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    The colonial ‘naked Bushman’ stereotype is wrong – new research shows a complex practice of dressing

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    · Mar 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm
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    Like English in the UK, the British Sign Language has developed its own dialects

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    Do literary translations need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been doing just that

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    The Daily Fix: Aadhaar amendment did not get through Parliament – so why is it an ordinance?

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    Of borders and tongues: A writer’s lifelong journey of losing and finding his mother language

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    · Feb 26, 2019 · 09:00 am
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    As Aadhaar amendment Bill lapses, Indian policymakers should rethink the digital identity project

    Naman Aggarwal Raman Jit Singh Chima
    · Feb 22, 2019 · 08:00 am
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    The exoticised images of India by Western photographers have left a dark legacy

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    · Feb 20, 2019 · 03:30 pm
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    By creating Urdu covers for English record albums, a Pakistani artist has found herself

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    For these women living in the outskirts of Delhi, selfies are a way to claim their identity

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