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  • A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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    A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
  • A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
  • Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
  • ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
  • ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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    ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
  • How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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    How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city

  • Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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    Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
  • How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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    How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
  • Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
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    Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
  • The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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    The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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Watch: International Space Station astronaut sends Independence Day wishes to India

ISRO posted the video of astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s message.

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Aug 15, 2022 · 10:17 am
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Thank you @NASA, @esa, and all the partners of the International Space Station👋 @Space_Station for the wishes on #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/2r0xuwdSQ4

— ISRO (@isro) August 13, 2022
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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    ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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