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    Why Estonian writer Jaan Kross’s historical fiction is worth reading in India today

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    Carved in stone: Gujarat’s rich cosmopolitan legacy in a 15th-century tomb complex

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    ‘Newslaundry’ women employees file defamation suit against commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra

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    The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished

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    Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

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    A new book examines how Unilever used single-use plastic sachets to boost sales

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    Bengaluru: Foxconn factory turns rural town into real estate goldmine

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    Readers’ comments: As inheritors of the sanatan dharma, how can we foster a questioning people?

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    Near Adani’s Jharkhand power plant, villages still struggle for basic health, education

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Watch: This ninety-three-year-old woman joined the Quit India movement as a child

Lilabai Chitale joined Congress leader Jairam Ramesh in Balapur during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

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Nov 18, 2022 · 11:09 am
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93 वर्षीय लीलाबाई चितले से मुलाक़ात बेहद प्रेरणादायक रही। इन्होंने 1942 के भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन में भाग लिया था और आज महाराष्ट्र के बालापुर के पास #BharatJodoYatra में शामिल हुईं। वह चाहती थीं कि यात्रा संविधान बचाने पर फोकस हो। उन्होंने हमारे साथ एक सुंदर संदेश साझा किया। pic.twitter.com/3nB35weTxg

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) November 17, 2022
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