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  • After 12 years of Modi, I’m not sure if my decades-long friendships can survive politics
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    After 12 years of Modi, I’m not sure if my decades-long friendships can survive politics
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    An ex-editor writes: My name was deleted during SIR. Now police won’t clear my passport application
  • ‘The Ambedkar–Nietzsche Provocations’: A new perspective on Brahminism for future scholars of caste
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    ‘The Ambedkar–Nietzsche Provocations’: A new perspective on Brahminism for future scholars of caste
  • How a son’s discovery of his father’s army dispatches from World War Two became a book
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    How a son’s discovery of his father’s army dispatches from World War Two became a book
  • Persons who convert to Islam cannot claim Backward Class Muslim status: Madras HC
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    Persons who convert to Islam cannot claim Backward Class Muslim status: Madras HC
  • Rush Hour: Ram temple trust chief resigns, Karnataka mandates FIR in revenge porn cases and more
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    Rush Hour: Ram temple trust chief resigns, Karnataka mandates FIR in revenge porn cases and more
  • ‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village
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    ‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village
  • How data centres disrupt the lives of local communities
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    How data centres disrupt the lives of local communities
  • Name changing in India: From decolonisation to neo-colonialism?
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    Name changing in India: From decolonisation to neo-colonialism?
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    Ramachandra Guha: How the Indian frontier service worked selflessly to build the new nation
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