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  • Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
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    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
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    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
  • How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
  • ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
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    ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
  • Fiction: A couple joins a working-class revolution with disaffected Sikh factory workers in London
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    Fiction: A couple joins a working-class revolution with disaffected Sikh factory workers in London
  • Court acquittal three years on is cold comfort for Muslim man rebuilding life after demolition
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    Court acquittal three years on is cold comfort for Muslim man rebuilding life after demolition
  • India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
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    India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
  • Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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    Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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    The flight of the florican: An ornithologist’s lifelong quest to save a terrestrial bird

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  1. Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport

    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
  2. A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing

    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
  3. How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule

    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
  4. Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?

    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
  5. ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan

    ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
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