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  • 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

  • Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll
    2

    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
    3

    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

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

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

  • A new book asks what made Japan Westernise rapidly during the Meiji era in the late 19th century
    6

    A new book asks what made Japan Westernise rapidly during the Meiji era in the late 19th century

  • Rejoinder: Manu Pillai treats civilisational coherence with deep suspicion
    7

    Rejoinder: Manu Pillai treats civilisational coherence with deep suspicion

  • Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods
    8

    Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods

  • Muslim auto driver assaulted allegedly for refusing to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Bengaluru
    9

    Muslim auto driver assaulted allegedly for refusing to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Bengaluru

  • 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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‘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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