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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

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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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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • A Swiss court’s decision on use of a pesticide sends a hopeful message to Indian farmers
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    A Swiss court’s decision on use of a pesticide sends a hopeful message to Indian farmers

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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Watch: Flooded homes and streets in Chicago after heavy rains and big sewage pipe explosion

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'COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING': A geyser-like rush of water spews from a drain as severe flooding hits Chicago. https://t.co/tap7k5kVCO pic.twitter.com/yAF4msfoPJ

— ABC News (@ABC) September 13, 2022

This morning at Lawrence and Ravenswood pic.twitter.com/cf22at05Ha

— Kyna (@KJintheCity) September 11, 2022

@chicagosmayor @chicago @49thWard thanks to the City of Chicago for not maintaining their sewer systems properly; filled out basement (and neighbors) with raw sewage. pic.twitter.com/KA8fsb5JvT

— Matthew Ardoin (@ardoin_matthew) September 11, 2022

Sewers getting wild in Chicago today pic.twitter.com/vnSA0Zpa8X

— Jon Heupel (@jonheupel) September 11, 2022

@weatherchannel @WGNNews walking to church this morning and water burst through the sidewalk on Chicago higher than a building. Never seen anything like this before! pic.twitter.com/bVHOAnBEXG

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  1. How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

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