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  • ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
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    ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
  • Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
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    Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
  • How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
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    How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
  • Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic
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    Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic
  • A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
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    A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
  • A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
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    A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
  • Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
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    Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
  • Translated short fiction: A Konkani Christian cowherd wonders if he should convert to Hinduism
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    Translated short fiction: A Konkani Christian cowherd wonders if he should convert to Hinduism
  • In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    ‘Criminal Justice – A Family Matter’ review: All in a day’s work for Pankaj Tripathi’s Madhav Mishra
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Watch: National flag hoisted underwater on Independence Day by Indian Coast Guard personnel

The tricolour was hoisted along the Tamil Nadu coast in Rameshwaram.

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Aug 15, 2023 · 02:21 pm
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#WATCH | Underwater hoisting of national flag by Indian Coast Guard personnel near Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu on Independence Day

(Video source: Indian Coast Guard) pic.twitter.com/SPGsU3HxDj

— ANI (@ANI) August 15, 2023

Underwater hoisting of national flag 🇮🇳by Indian Coast Guard personnel near Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu on 77th Independence Day #IndependeceDay2023 #Bharat pic.twitter.com/UqzZNZqWbD

— Amitabh Chaudhary (@MithilaWaala) August 15, 2023
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