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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    This new cookbook has compiled heirloom recipes from every corner of India
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    The hypocrisy of India’s brutal deportations
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    ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
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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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