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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
    3

    Indian writer Nilanjana S Roy is on the 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize

  • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
    4

    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents

  • Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
    5

    Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India

  • Emergency history: The arrest of socialist leader George Fernandes, and those who defended him
    6

    Emergency history: The arrest of socialist leader George Fernandes, and those who defended him

  • The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still flourishing
    7

    The Emergency is 50 years old, but film censorship is still flourishing

  • Zohran Mamdani poised to win New York Democratic mayoral primary polls
    8

    Zohran Mamdani poised to win New York Democratic mayoral primary polls

  • Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death
    9

    Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death

  • 4 arrested for tonsuring religious preacher, aide in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah
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    4 arrested for tonsuring religious preacher, aide in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah

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‘Pritam Singh Zinta was never my name’: Actor Preity Zinta sets the record straight

Co-star Bobby Deol used to call her Pritam Singh on the sets of ‘Soldier’ as a joke.

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Dec 15, 2023 · 03:41 pm
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Over the years I have consistently read in various media articles that I have changed my name from Pritam Singh Zinta to Preity Zinta. I have tried to set the record straight so many times by telling everyone that, on the sets of “Soldier” @thedeol called me Pritam Singh as a… pic.twitter.com/ibImRuMwhj

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) December 14, 2023
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