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    The UK wants to ban first-cousin marriages – but there’s an ethical challenge
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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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    A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
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    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
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    Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
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‘Those who drink alcohol aren’t Indians, they are great sinners’: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar was responding to criticism of the increase in deaths from consuming country liquor in the state.

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Apr 01, 2022 · 10:50 am
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar: “Those who consume alcohol are ‘mahapaapi’, (sinners), ‘not Indians’” @NitishKumar Cheers! 🥂 pic.twitter.com/9QySIVMvoG

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