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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
  • 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
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
  • 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
  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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