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    ‘Parade’: Rachel Cusk’s new novel makes the familiar strange – and moves beyond womanhood

    Jane Gleeson-White, The Conversation
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    Religious-national identity, civilisational revival: Hindutva and Zionism are ideological cousins

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    Modi pulled bahujan voters to the BJP. Many are now drifting away

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    The contradictions of the increase in India’s tiger population

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    What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?

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