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  • 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
  • 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
  • Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
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    Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
  • 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
  • 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
  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
  • 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
  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
  • 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
  • Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
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    Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
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Caught on camera: Passenger aboard hot air balloon captures the exact moment it crashed

The hot air balloon carrying 12 passengers crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Melbourne, Australia.

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Apr 22, 2022 · 11:47 am
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Incredible passenger-shot vision of this morning's hot air balloon crash in Melbourne has been released, showing the shocking moment the balloon came down over Elwood. #9News pic.twitter.com/wG1Ft5n2Ov

— 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) April 20, 2022

12 passengers have escaped unharmed after their hot air balloon crashed into a #Melbourne front yard this morning, following a malfunction. #9News pic.twitter.com/F0QaOHTdJt

— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) April 20, 2022
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  1. A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

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