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From a temple and sari to gender inclusive couples – here’s what the new emojis include
A new emoji showing a drop of blood has also been introduced to represent menstruation.
Scroll Staff
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Blocking out the poor: Why the attitude of many urban middle class volunteers at my NGO bothers me
Their gated, guarded, supervised lives do not seem to allow for osmosis with the larger world.
Bharati Chaturvedi
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Watch: Feeling lonely? This robot baby will soon give you company and a cuddle
Meet a new product of the loneliness economy.
Scroll Staff
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Does US have evidence of alients visiting us on Earth?
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Caste threads are spawning deadly conflicts in Tamil Nadu schools
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Watch: Madhuri Dixit does the viral ‘My Money Don’t Jiggle Jiggle’ dance trend on Instagram
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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Kapil Sibal says he has quit Congress, files Rajya Sabha nomination with Samajwadi Party’s support
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When did Che Guevara become CEO? How corporations are increasingly taking progressive stands
Companies, which in the past tended to stay neutral on divisive social and political issues, are increasingly taking a position. What's behind the change?
Jerry Davis, The Conversation
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Why rice growers in China are more sexually liberal than wheat growers
New research questions whether claims of a 'national sex revolution' in China are actually nothing of the sort.
Yang Hu, The Conversation
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Swadesh House Mafia, Kholgate and the year in GharWapsi humour
It's becoming a genre by itself.
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‘Manchester United are rubbish’: BBC trainee learning how to write ticker text makes it to live TV
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Watch: How the mahua flower shapes the life and culture of tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh
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‘When will we do something?’: Basketball coach Steve Kerr’s angry outburst on US school shooting
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Watch: UP government official fires revolver in the air, claims it was a toy gun
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Watch: These ‘upside-down’ trains transport up to 82,000 commuters a day in Germany