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

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

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

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

  • Dalai Lama says his trust has sole authority to decide his successor
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    Dalai Lama says his trust has sole authority to decide his successor

  • Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it
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    Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • 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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    ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy

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Watch: Hilarious summation of the difficulties of pronouncing Bengali names

When the same phonetical rules don't work for Anindya and Partha and Amrita.

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Nov 17, 2022 · 03:02 pm
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Since my IG reel has already hit twitter, might as well share it on my own account.

If you have been the victim or perpetrator of a mispronounced Bengali name this is for you. 😄 pic.twitter.com/cvkAsbTwaW

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