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    How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror

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    Harsh Mander: How Nazi cinema finds a reflection in Hindutva films

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    Hindi’s Hindutva problem that supporters are not ready to reckon with

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    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

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    Myths, hearsay, and historical memory coexist in the ways Kashmiris remember decades-long conflicts

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    ‘Myth is a carrier of history, trauma, resistance’: Subi Taba on writing about Arunachal Pradesh

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    Former civil servant and RBI governor YV Reddy revisits his mistakes and interventions in a new book

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    Journalist Ajit Anjum booked for video about Bihar voter roll revision

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    When a unique university on a ship sailed up to India for ‘cultural immersion’

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    FIR against UP school teacher for reciting poem allegedly critical of Kanwar Yatra

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Watch: Iran’s normally bustling shops close after merchants and shopkeepers call nationwide strike

Merchants and shopkeepers in various cities are on a three-day strike from December 5, protesting against clerical rule.

Scroll Staff
Dec 06, 2022 · 02:38 pm
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#اصفهان، دوشنبه ۱۴ آذر!

مغازه‌داران و بازاریان بازاربزرگ اصفهان به اعتصابات سراسری پیوستند.

مغازه‌ها برای ژینا بسته شده‌اند، برای نیکا، حدیث، سارینا. و برای هزاران انسان بی‌گناهی که بدست سپاهیان پرپر شدند.#اعتصابات_سراسری#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/9gsTJQ8jPs

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) December 5, 2022

#Shiraz is on strikes and shops are closed, videos from #Isfahan,#Kermanshah,#Tehran and tens of other cities show a nationwide strike continues in #Iran

Internet is clowning down in many parts of #Iran by the government to prevent news coming out. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/9qjPjkq8tE

— Sima Sabet | سیما ثابت (@Sima_Sabet) December 5, 2022

5-7 Dec 2022
There is a national protest and strike in all cities of Iran against the terrorist Islamic regime in Iran.
Most shops in Iranian cities were shut from Monday 5th Dec, Iranian demanding an immediate regime change.#MahsaAmini #WomanLifeFreedom #مهسا_امینی #انقلاب۱۴۰۱ pic.twitter.com/I2ESrJ0Txb

— برای ایران (@ManBarayeIran) December 5, 2022

Major strikes happening across Iran today as shops and business owners close shops in solidarity with #IranProtests.

This clip is from Khomein city, where the leader of the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, was born.#Iran #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/xkY6W2VeXH

— IranHumanRights.org (@ICHRI) December 5, 2022

#اعتصابات_سراسری؛ یزدانشهر اصفهان#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/wxYDtqq2qM

— Ali Javanmardi (@Javanmardi75) December 5, 2022
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