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  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

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Watch: Streets submerged, thousands evacuate homes as eastern Australia faces worst flood in decades

At least 14 people have died in the flooding that began a week ago.

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Mar 03, 2022 · 04:00 pm
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Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydneyhttps://t.co/Rfhepshv6B

📹 Residents in the town of Grafton on Australia's east coast return to properties after a deadly torrential downpour pic.twitter.com/PYPqRGu6c4

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 3, 2022

“I’ve never seen it like this. Ever.”

Residents of Lismore, New South Wales, are in shock after severe rainfall led to record-breaking floods in eastern Australia, per Reuters. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is calling it a “crisis situation.” pic.twitter.com/RoiR50SiUm

— CNN (@CNN) February 28, 2022

VIDEO: Parts of Grafton in Australia's New South Wales are under water following a week-long "rain bomb".
Deadly floods have swept Australia's east coast, stranding people on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes pic.twitter.com/4a8vXnmSX8

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