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  • Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll
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    Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll
  • Caste as seen through an Orientalist lens: The ironic legacy of 18th-century Company paintings
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    Caste as seen through an Orientalist lens: The ironic legacy of 18th-century Company paintings
  • Indian writer Nilanjana S Roy is on the 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize
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    Indian writer Nilanjana S Roy is on the 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize
  • Emergency history: The arrest of socialist leader George Fernandes, and those who defended him
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    Emergency history: The arrest of socialist leader George Fernandes, and those who defended him
  • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
  • Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
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    Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
  • Zohran Mamdani poised to win New York Democratic mayoral primary polls
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    Zohran Mamdani poised to win New York Democratic mayoral primary polls
  • Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods
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    Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods
  • Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death
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    Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death
  • The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still flourishing
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    The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still flourishing
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Watch: Baby crocodile spotted in swimming pool in Dadar, Mumbai

The two-foot-long reptile was rescued from the Mahatma Gandhi memorial olympic swimming pool, run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

Scroll Staff
Oct 03, 2023 · 02:21 pm
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दादर स्थित महात्मा गांधी स्विमिंग पूल में एक मगरमच्छ पाया गया। pic.twitter.com/84CG4KNW8X

— Shreya Dubey (@shreyad21) October 3, 2023

The crocodile has been handed over to forest department officials.(ends)

— Richa Pinto (@richapintoi) October 3, 2023
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