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  • ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
  • ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
  • From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  • The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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    The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
  • Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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    Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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    ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
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    India’s friendship with Jordan was catalysed by a meeting in Tehran in 1949
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    Podcast: British imperialism, Bombay business – the India-Ireland connection through time
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    How to move on from feeling stuck in life
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  1. ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh

    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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