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    Why are Bangladeshis turning against India?

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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    Why Estonian writer Jaan Kross’s historical fiction is worth reading in India today

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    Short stories from Nagaland: A young man’s maiden visit to a clothing showroom doesn’t go as planned

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    The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished

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    ‘I am still writing for the lonely soul’: At 91, Ruskin Bond looks back at his literary life

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    Readers’ comments: As inheritors of the sanatan dharma, how can we foster a questioning people?

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    Crisis posed by AI is a moment to rethink education – with help from Hannah Arendt

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    Watch: Why workers at an Adani power plant in Jharkhand went on a strike

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    Food habits that work as well as weight-loss drugs

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Watch: Modern cemeteries in Japan use QR codes, automated machinery to store ashes of the deceased

Visitors scan their ID cards to call up a loved one’s ashes at this futuristic cemetery in Tokyo.

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Apr 27, 2022 · 10:20 am
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QR codes and cranes.

Masayo Isurugi settles into a booth in a Tokyo building, scans an ID card and waits for an automated system to deliver her husband's ashes.

More people in Japan are breaking with traditions on burial and choosing modern cemeterieshttps://t.co/QEWpdSEoTs pic.twitter.com/txF7BnsfxF

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