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  • How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
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    How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
  • ‘The Salt Path’ scandal: Defending a memoir’s ‘emotional truth’ is a high-risk strategy
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    ‘The Salt Path’ scandal: Defending a memoir’s ‘emotional truth’ is a high-risk strategy
  • Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future
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    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future
  • First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
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    First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
  • How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
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    How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
  • Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom
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    Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom
  • Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies
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    Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies
  • Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future
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    Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future
  • A Jammu family’s fight to get their mother back from Pakistan
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    A Jammu family’s fight to get their mother back from Pakistan
  • Is population decline good for nature? Japan shows that may not be the case
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    Is population decline good for nature? Japan shows that may not be the case
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Watch: Satirist Urvish Kothari proposes new questions for calculating India’s own happiness index

‘Although its name is the Happiness Index, when it is released, it only leaves us feeling sad’.

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Mar 25, 2023 · 11:50 am
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Happiness index, made in India.
एक हेप्पीनेस इन्डेक्स यह भी। #GujaratiFunda pic.twitter.com/BRIXQqtsPZ

— Urvish Kothari ~ उर्वीश कोठारी (@urvish2020) March 24, 2023
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