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  • UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances
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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
    3

    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

  • Maharashtra livestock commission asks animal markets to close during Bakri Eid week
    5

    Maharashtra livestock commission asks animal markets to close during Bakri Eid week

  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

  • ‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel
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    ‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel

  • June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life
    8

    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life

  • In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’

  • From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution
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    From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution

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Watch: This huge Santa Claus installation has been created with tomatoes (and sand) in Odisha

Sudarsan Pattnaik used one and a half tonnes of tomatoes to create the Santa Claus installation on Gopalpur beach.

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Dec 25, 2022 · 03:54 pm
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#TomatoSanta World's biggest Tomato with Sand #SantaClause installation of 1.5 tons of Tamato at Gopalpur beach in Odisha , India. This sculpture is 27ft high, 60 ft wide. My students joined hand with me to complete the sculpture. #MerryChristmas2022 pic.twitter.com/s1cOeYQzEC

— Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) December 25, 2022
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  1. UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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