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  • ‘I am still writing for the lonely soul’: At 91, Ruskin Bond looks back at his literary life
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    ‘I am still writing for the lonely soul’: At 91, Ruskin Bond looks back at his literary life
  • Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, wins 2025 International Booker Prize
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    Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, wins 2025 International Booker Prize
  • ‘Newslaundry’ women employees file defamation suit against commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra
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    ‘Newslaundry’ women employees file defamation suit against commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra
  • Why Estonian writer Jaan Kross’s historical fiction is worth reading in India today
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    Why Estonian writer Jaan Kross’s historical fiction is worth reading in India today
  • Carved in stone: Gujarat’s rich cosmopolitan legacy in a 15th-century tomb complex
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    Carved in stone: Gujarat’s rich cosmopolitan legacy in a 15th-century tomb complex

  • Readers’ comments: As inheritors of the sanatan dharma, how can we foster a questioning people?
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    Readers’ comments: As inheritors of the sanatan dharma, how can we foster a questioning people?
  • Book excerpt: The seduction of Raj Khosla’s ‘Woh Kaun Thi?’ begins with its opening scene
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    Book excerpt: The seduction of Raj Khosla’s ‘Woh Kaun Thi?’ begins with its opening scene
  • The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished
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    The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished

  • Watch: Why workers at an Adani power plant in Jharkhand went on a strike
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    Watch: Why workers at an Adani power plant in Jharkhand went on a strike
  • Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?
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    Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?
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Watch: Huge snake slithers onto cricket field, interrupts Lanka Premier League match

The snake entered the field during a game between Galle Gladiators and Dambulla Giants at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Jul 31, 2023 · 07:17 pm
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