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  • 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
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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Watch: Author Zadie Smith sings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at a public reading of her novels

The author is known for her books ‘White Teeth’, and ‘On Beauty’ among others.

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Apr 24, 2022 · 03:14 pm
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Last night at the Barbican, accompanied by the BBC symphony, Zadie Smith read—and then, sang! I’m still reeling. pic.twitter.com/8z4DeyoltN

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