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  • A new self-help book recommends ways to step out of the comfort zone and take on new challenges
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    A new self-help book recommends ways to step out of the comfort zone and take on new challenges
  • Some want Israel to use Lanka-style brutality against Hamas – ignoring the strategy’s true costs
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    Some want Israel to use Lanka-style brutality against Hamas – ignoring the strategy’s true costs
  • The JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it?
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    The JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it?
  • Supreme Court stopped ‘bulldozer justice’, executive cannot be judge and jury: CJI Gavai
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    Supreme Court stopped ‘bulldozer justice’, executive cannot be judge and jury: CJI Gavai
  • Can Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian to run to be New York mayor, pull off an upset?
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    Can Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian to run to be New York mayor, pull off an upset?
  • Israel tells UN Security Council it ‘will not stop’ attacks on Iran
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    Israel tells UN Security Council it ‘will not stop’ attacks on Iran
  • ‘The House of Awadh’: The exile and echoes of Begum Wilayat Mahal, the queen of nowhere
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    ‘The House of Awadh’: The exile and echoes of Begum Wilayat Mahal, the queen of nowhere
  • ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ review: A well-intentioned, often heart-warming and simplistic tale
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    ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ review: A well-intentioned, often heart-warming and simplistic tale
  • Scroll Adda: ‘Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history’
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    Scroll Adda: ‘Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history’
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    Review: Season 2 of ‘Kerala Crime Files’ is more ambitious, busier and meatier
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‘The blessing is also for animals’: Monks meet pets on the occasion of Buddha Purnima in Singapore

‘We like to accumulate merit for our pets, so that in the future, they may become humans just like us and not be animals.’

Scroll Staff
May 16, 2022 · 04:41 pm
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VIDEO: Singapore temple offers pet blessings for Buddhist festival.

"After my animals are blessed, they are more sensitive and they are more aware and there's more bonding," says one pet owner pic.twitter.com/XY3BugySZP

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  1. A new self-help book recommends ways to step out of the comfort zone and take on new challenges

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    Some want Israel to use Lanka-style brutality against Hamas – ignoring the strategy’s true costs
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    The JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it?
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    Supreme Court stopped ‘bulldozer justice’, executive cannot be judge and jury: CJI Gavai
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    Can Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian to run to be New York mayor, pull off an upset?
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