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  • 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
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
  • 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
  • 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
  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
  • 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 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
  • 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’
  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
  • Who called William Shakespeare an ‘upstart crow’? A new study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe
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    Who called William Shakespeare an ‘upstart crow’? A new study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe
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Watch: Women TV news presenters in Afghanistan cover their face on air following Taliban orders

‘No Islamic justification and not a part of our culture’, said a news presenter in response to the rule.

Scroll Staff
May 23, 2022 · 02:02 pm
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The Taliban have begun enforcing an order requiring women newsreaders to cover their face on air.

It announced the rule on Thursday and only a handful of programmes complied, however on Sunday most were seen covered up.

Read more: https://t.co/zcmk6v2hDX pic.twitter.com/Jr7CTuUk0l

— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 22, 2022
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  1. A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

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