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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
  • Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • How to move on from feeling stuck in life
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    How to move on from feeling stuck in life
  • ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
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    ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
  • India’s friendship with Jordan was catalysed by a meeting in Tehran in 1949
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    India’s friendship with Jordan was catalysed by a meeting in Tehran in 1949
  • ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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    ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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Watch: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee plays the ‘dhaak’ while inaugurating a Durga Puja in Kolkata

The chief minister was accompanied by Kolkata Mayor Firad Hakim, who too played on the drums.

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Sep 29, 2022 · 01:13 pm
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#WATCH : #MamataBanerjee inaugurates a #DurgaPuja pandal in #Kolkata, makes an entry with a dhak (drum) on her shoulder, playing it and matching the beats along with others. pic.twitter.com/u1p4l0twZj

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