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  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
  • Who called William Shakespeare an ‘upstart crow’? A new study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe
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    Who called William Shakespeare an ‘upstart crow’? A new study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe
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Afghanistan: Taliban members whitewash walls in Kabul, paint over murals on streets

Colourful paintings on Kabul streets were covered with text in black and white, news agency AFP reported.

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Sep 05, 2021 · 05:37 pm
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#VIDEO The Taliban whitewash the walls of the Afghan capital, erasing the colourful murals of Kabul, covering them with black and white Islamist texts and quotes from Taliban leaders, celebrating the departure of US troopshttps://t.co/3aVCEIOdix pic.twitter.com/kYPHTYwasG

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 4, 2021
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