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1A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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2For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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3Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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4This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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5A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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6How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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7A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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8Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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9What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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10Who called William Shakespeare an ‘upstart crow’? A new study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe
