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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

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    Telangana MLA T Raja Singh quits BJP, objects to appointment of new state party chief

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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

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    What Iranians in India think about the war and Tehran

  • ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker
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    ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker

  • 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

  • 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’

  • Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death
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    Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death

  • 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

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    Why EC move to create new Bihar voter list has rung the ‘NRC’ alarm bell

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‘Who I am’: Student says ‘curly hair’ instead of ‘gay’ in commencement speech to avoid censorship

‘I decided to be proud of who I was.’

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May 29, 2022 · 12:49 pm
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florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe pic.twitter.com/OqLbar5bwq

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