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    Indian academia is rife with research and publishing misconduct

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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    ‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers

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    Gujarat Samachar: A newspaper with a long history of criticising Modi is now under siege

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    Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’

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    How the India-Pakistan fighting affected children near the border and across the country

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    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

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    When war becomes a meme: Tagore’s warning against hollow nationalism

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    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

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'Being a woman is a crime’: Female student in Afghanistan makes powerful statement in men’s clothes

‘I have been forced to wear men’s clothes to show that no man is willing to stand up for women's rights.’

Scroll Staff
Jan 04, 2023 · 06:39 pm
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A female student of Herat university recorded a video of herself wearing men's clothes because "being a woman in Afghanistan is now a crime."

She asks the world not forget them as they fight for Afghanistans freedom.

"This time it's a women's revolution"

به امید آزادی. pic.twitter.com/JATN2arKad

— Shabnam Nasimi (@NasimiShabnam) January 3, 2023
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