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  • Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
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    Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
  • Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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    Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
  • Why Sri Lankan activists opposed Adani wind energy project in Mannar
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    Why Sri Lankan activists opposed Adani wind energy project in Mannar
  • All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse
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    All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse

  • How Trump could hurt India’s ability to forecast the monsoon
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    How Trump could hurt India’s ability to forecast the monsoon
  • ‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
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    ‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
  • A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
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    A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
  • When over 2,000 Indian POWS on a Japanese ‘hell ship’ died after being torpedoed by a US submarine
    8

    When over 2,000 Indian POWS on a Japanese ‘hell ship’ died after being torpedoed by a US submarine
  • Delhi Police opposes filing FIR against BJP's Kapil Mishra for 2020 riots, claims he is being framed
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    Delhi Police opposes filing FIR against BJP's Kapil Mishra for 2020 riots, claims he is being framed
  • Reward yourself, forget the 21-day myth: Ways to get into a habit loop
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    Reward yourself, forget the 21-day myth: Ways to get into a habit loop
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Watch: Actor Chiranjeevi’s javelin throw in a 1999 film is going viral as India’s ‘first gold medal’

Seen in ‘Iddaru Mitrulu’, directed by K Raghavendra Rao.

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Aug 09, 2021 · 05:15 pm
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