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

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

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

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    ‘Andhar Maya’ review: An ancestral home in the Konkan is overrun by ghosts and greed

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    This new cookbook has compiled heirloom recipes from every corner of India

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    Nagpur woman who crossed Line of Control from Kargil booked for espionage

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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

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

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Watch: Water in Venice’s famous canals almost dries up, leaves gondolas stuck in mud

Weeks of dry winter weather and unusually low tides are threatening the Italian city’s canals.

Scroll Staff
Feb 25, 2023 · 09:55 am
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A prolonged stretch of low tides linked to a high pressure weather system and the current lunar cycle has practically dried up some of Venice's famous canals.

What’s left?

A mucky, muddy mess.

One expert says it highlights the need for a network-wide canal cleaning. pic.twitter.com/Vbg7XABY1r

— Pattrn (@pattrn) February 22, 2023

In #Venice, the canals began to dry up due to the lowering of the water level pic.twitter.com/ep51Qg10vs

— RRN.Europe (@RRNEurope) February 21, 2023

Why Venice's canals are drying out pic.twitter.com/mVGPMUvhUI

— Mashable (@mashable) February 24, 2023
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