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  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

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

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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

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

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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken

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    A Swiss court’s decision on use of a pesticide sends a hopeful message to Indian farmers

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    ‘What we saw...we captured in the camera’: Rural Rajasthan, through the eyes of its own residents

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Watch: Kabul shopkeepers cover mannequins’ faces to prevent them from being beheaded by the Taliban

Everything from plastic bags to aluminium foil is being used.

Scroll Staff
Jan 20, 2023 · 09:49 am
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Shopkeepers cover mannequins' heads in aluminum foil, wigs, cloth sacks and black plastic bags across Kabul, Afghanistan, to adhere to the Taliban's strict religious codes.
The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/TAe9w9Hp6e

— VOA DEEWA (@voadeewa) January 17, 2023

Here are some images from one of my businesses. Almost all of my employees are female, ranging in age from 18 to 50, and they currently work in very unfavorable and stressful conditions. Taliban cannot win by segregating and repressing the half of the population. pic.twitter.com/cVDdsZitPM

— Faisal Azizi (@mfaisalazizi) January 18, 2023
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