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  • UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances
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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

  • Maharashtra livestock commission asks animal markets to close during Bakri Eid week
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    Maharashtra livestock commission asks animal markets to close during Bakri Eid week

  • June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life
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    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life

  • In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’

  • A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
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    A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue

  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

  • ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
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    ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side

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‘There is no way out’: Afghanistan NGO director speaks on the Taliban taking over the country

‘This means I am going to lose everything that my father and I and my whole family have worked for.’

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Aug 14, 2021 · 10:19 am
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“This means losing your houses, your dreams, your goals, your ambition... everything.”

Pashtana Durrani, executive director of an NGO for girls' education speaks to @krishgm from Kandahar in Afghanistan, a city under siege by the Taliban. pic.twitter.com/j6qUPzDkP3

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 12, 2021
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  1. UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

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