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  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

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

  • ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family
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    ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family

  • ‘Metro...In Dino’ review: A hot mess of mostly cold sentiment
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    ‘Metro...In Dino’ review: A hot mess of mostly cold sentiment

  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

  • 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

  • Review: ‘Uppu Kappurambu’ finds the comedy in death and burial
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    Review: ‘Uppu Kappurambu’ finds the comedy in death and burial

  • This book studies gender in Bengal’s nationalist policies (and the evolution of the ‘bhadramahila’)
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    This book studies gender in Bengal’s nationalist policies (and the evolution of the ‘bhadramahila’)

  • ‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
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    ‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas

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

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‘Blackly comic, really artful’: What Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) told BBC about her favourite novel

The British author, who died on 22 September 2022, at the age of 70, revealed that ‘Good Behaviour’ by Molly Keane was her favourite book.

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Sep 24, 2022 · 02:22 pm
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Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. Known for her historical novels, she won the Booker Prize twice.

Back in 1990, on Speaking Volumes, she was asked to recommend one of her favourite books... pic.twitter.com/DaXoixkTO3

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