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    Startup stories: How two young men tried to make drinking tea cool with an investment of Rs 3 lakh

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    ‘Literature gives you something history can’t’: Editor Mini Krishnan on classic Indian stories

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    Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge

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    Early, intense heatwaves scorch mango crops in Konkan

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    For young readers: How children picked Lactobacillus delbrueckii as India’s national microbe

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    Myth, machines, and revolution in ancient India: Roger Zelazny’s 1967 novel ‘Lord of Light’

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    ‘April May 99’ review: An irresistibly charming summer vacation

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    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

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    Why Heart Lamp’s Booker win breaks many barriers

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Knives, skewers and a spinning into a trance is the new custom for followers of the Kasnazani sect in Iraq.

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Jun 22, 2017 · 07:28 pm
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