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      Travelogue: A hermit travels from the Garhwal Himalayas to Mount Kailash and Manas Sarovar in 1898

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    Readers’ comments: Journalists’ strong reaction to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘pliable’ remark is strange

    Scroll
    · Jan 06, 2019 · 10:30 pm
  • How far to Auschwitz? Why we need to read Lidia Ostalowska’s ‘Watercolours’ to look for an answer

    How far to Auschwitz? Why we need to read Lidia Ostalowska’s ‘Watercolours’ to look for an answer

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    · Jan 05, 2019 · 08:30 am
  • Aadhaar Act amendments let private firms resume use of biometric ID, sustain arbitrary surveillance

    Aadhaar Act amendments let private firms resume use of biometric ID, sustain arbitrary surveillance

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    · Jan 04, 2019 · 06:30 am
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    Rampant growth of polluting brick kilns has made Jharkhand’s quaint McCluskieganj town a death trap

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    · Jan 02, 2019 · 08:30 pm
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    Looking for Modi: Through the eyes of a triple talaq crusader in western Uttar Pradesh

    Supriya Sharma
    · Dec 27, 2018 · 09:00 am
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    The Pakistani biopic of Muhammad Ali Jinnah that was abandoned because it ‘lacked feeling’

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    · Dec 25, 2018 · 12:00 pm
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    Why Farrokh Chothia finds more joy in his portraits of jazz legends than in his fashion photography

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    · Dec 17, 2018 · 03:30 pm
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    Meet the Tamil artist who is preserving memories of ‘surviving the war’ in Sri Lanka

    S Senthalir
    · Dec 15, 2018 · 11:30 am
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    Giving ‘underground music’ a literal meaning

    · Dec 10, 2018 · 11:42 am
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    Temple City meets Smart City: The first Bhubaneswar Art Trail questions rhetoric behind development

    Kamayani Sharma
    · Dec 10, 2018 · 03:30 pm
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    A new Indian zine gives sex education lessons to ignorant millennial men

    Sushmita Sundaram
    · Dec 07, 2018 · 03:30 pm
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    Rahul Gandhi should take a lesson from AAP on battling Hindutva – and India would benefit

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · Dec 04, 2018 · 08:00 am
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    ‘Our struggle continues till today’: The Naga Club has quietly turned 100

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    · Dec 02, 2018 · 07:30 am
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    After 15 years of BJP rule, will vote for change bring in a coalition government in Chhattisgarh?

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    Hair to stay: A brief history of beards in public life and the workplace

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    · Nov 28, 2018 · 09:30 pm
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    Fishing cat: Researchers are trying to shed light on the little-known felines that swim for food

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    · Nov 27, 2018 · 11:30 pm
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    Why is Myanmar angry? This book goes looking for answers

    Abhijit Dutta
    · Nov 21, 2018 · 05:30 pm
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    Babloo Babylon: The rising underground musician from Jhumri Telaiya whose identity nobody knows

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    Meet the Aadhaar naysayers, whose objection is that the system takes power away from the people

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    · Nov 14, 2018 · 08:30 am
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