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    ‘Literature gives you something history can’t’: Editor Mini Krishnan on classic Indian stories

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    Startup stories: How two young men tried to make drinking tea cool with an investment of Rs 3 lakh

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    Why Heart Lamp’s Booker win breaks many barriers

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    Why Sudeshna Shome Ghosh took on ‘one of the toughest jobs in publishing’: Children’s picture books

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    Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge

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    Twinkle, twinkle, little star: Cosmology and the composition of verse

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    When the British considered punishing Iran for the harassment of Indian pilgrims

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    ‘April May 99’ review: An irresistibly charming summer vacation

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    Myth, machines, and revolution in ancient India: Roger Zelazny’s 1967 novel ‘Lord of Light’

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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.

Scroll Staff
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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