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Meeting diaspora, watching garba, speaking to ANI: What anti-terror MP delegations are doing abroad
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): Five things to know about one of Africa’s greatest ever writers
YouTuber Mohak Mangal agrees to remove ‘objectionable’ parts of video about ANI
Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
Translated short fiction: A Konkani Christian cowherd wonders if he should convert to Hinduism
A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
‘Kankhajura’ review: An engaging look at insidious evil
It’s a ‘golden age’ for the Hindi news business – but not so much for Hindi journalism or democracy
‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
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As Afghanistan warmed up to India in the late 1940s, strains with Pakistan began to emerge
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Investing in public well-being is not ‘populism’: Why the ‘freebie’ debate is flawed
Anirban Bhattacharya Amitanshu Verma
· Apr 18, 2023 · 06:30 am
‘Freebie’ row: Six charts explain why states must be allowed to make their own decisions on welfare
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· Aug 30, 2022 · 09:00 am
How the row over ‘freebies’ hides India’s failure to meet the basic needs of its citizens
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· Aug 27, 2022 · 09:00 am
Bad loans of Rs 10 lakh crore been written off as ‘muft ki revdi’: Varun Gandhi’s dig at Modi
Scroll Staff
· Aug 06, 2022 · 05:00 pm
