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The girl not from Madras: What happened to Sakina when she was ‘sold’ as a bride
Orijit Sen and Neha Dixit
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How Rana Ayyub had to become Maithili Tyagi for her investigations in Gujarat
Rana Ayyub
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No squeeze, no wheeze, no navel please: How Indian advertising lost its puritanism
Ambi Parameswaran
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Father's fears, daughter's dreams: NYT journalist's book records hope and fury among India's young
Somini Sengupta
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How television (and T20) have invented the new Indian cricket
Harsha Bhogle
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Giant-killer: An excerpt from 'Didi: The Bengal Tigress' by Jayanta Ghosal
Jayanta Ghosal
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First read: ‘We long for togetherness, and yet we’re trapped in our own bodies’
Tahmima Anam
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First read: ‘How had he won her love, how was he going to keep her?’
Manjushree Thapa
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Genome engineering can ‘enhance’ humans. Should it be allowed to, asks Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Dear Tanya… love, Tania: When bored girls chat across the border
Antara Ganguli
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Writing Syria, writing jihad: What does the war in Aleppo smell of?
Janine di Giovanni
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Why the Aam Aadmi Party is like Android and Linux: it's an Open Source movement
Pran Kurup
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Those moments when India and Pakistan were actually friends united against terrorism
Husain Haqqani
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First read: The novel of the film ‘Finding Fanny’
Kersi Khambatta
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Growing up with a family of Dominicans and a Pakistani
Haris A Durrani
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When you can be differently abled and have great fun
Zainab Sulaiman
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How Shashi Kapoor became the first Indian crossover star and other stories
Aseem Chhabra
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How the Sahara Group fought to prevent a book about its business being published
Subir Ghosh with Paranjoy Guhathakurta
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Ramanujan: The man who knew infinity and inspired a thriller
MN Krish
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When salaries were Rs 60, mutton cost nine annas, and the living was easy
Vandana Mishra