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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    World Bank cancels funding for 4 waste-to-energy plants in Gujarat after residents object
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    Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
  • ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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    ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
  • The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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    The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
  • Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
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    Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
  • State should have better things to do: Supreme Court tells Assam on beef transport case
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    State should have better things to do: Supreme Court tells Assam on beef transport case
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‘Everybody needs to do this’: Star Trek’s William Shatner is oldest man to visit the edge of space

The 90-year-old Shatner travelled to the Karman Line – the boundary between earth’s atmosphere and space – on board Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.

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Oct 14, 2021 · 12:23 pm
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Star Trek actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space

The 90-year-old said it was "extraordinary"https://t.co/EDW371laOJ pic.twitter.com/NVTyXjtRM8

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 13, 2021

This was the voyage of the RSS First Step today. Its mission: encounter Earth from incredible views at apogee pic.twitter.com/Gzsnkv97K9

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) October 13, 2021
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