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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’

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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, local police claim

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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

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    SC tells Centre to respond to plea by ‘4PM News’ challenging blocking of its YouTube channel

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    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

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    Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor

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    Restore Kancha Gachibowli forest or have officers sent to jail, SC tells Telangana

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    Donald Trump reiterates claim that he ‘helped settle’ tensions between India and Pakistan

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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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