Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?
Losing sparrows will mean a loss of a lot of insects, birds that depend on the sparrows, and an imminent cascading effect through the ecosystem.
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1A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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2A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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3Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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4‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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5‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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6How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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7Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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8How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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9Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
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10The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
