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    Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
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    Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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    Why Sri Lankan activists opposed Adani wind energy project in Mannar
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    All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse

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    How Trump could hurt India’s ability to forecast the monsoon
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    ‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
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    A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
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    When over 2,000 Indian POWS on a Japanese ‘hell ship’ died after being torpedoed by a US submarine
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    Delhi Police opposes filing FIR against BJP's Kapil Mishra for 2020 riots, claims he is being framed
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‘He sat with me week after week’: Actor Sidney Poitier on friend who taught him to read as an adult

A CBS Sunday interview from 2013 with the actor who died on 6 January, 2022 at the age of 94.

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Jan 10, 2022 · 02:10 pm
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Sidney Poitier — choking up, describing how a kind co-worker offered to teach him how to read as an adult — is one powerful moment.

From 2013.
(via @CBSSunday) #RIPSidneyPoitier 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/7irb0m50ou

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 9, 2022
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