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    ‘We don’t want war’: Amid public endorsement for strikes, some Indians are worried

  • Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app
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    Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app
  • How false videos blurred fact and fiction after Operation Sindoor
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    How false videos blurred fact and fiction after Operation Sindoor
  • From the travelogue: An Indian in South Korea recounts the ‘jobs’ she held without a work visa
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    From the travelogue: An Indian in South Korea recounts the ‘jobs’ she held without a work visa
  • What Donald Trump could learn from Jawaharlal Nehru about architecture
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    What Donald Trump could learn from Jawaharlal Nehru about architecture
  • Counterview: India’s past deserves more than apologia or amnesia
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    Counterview: India’s past deserves more than apologia or amnesia
  • The importance of secular optics during ‘Operation Sindoor’
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    The importance of secular optics during ‘Operation Sindoor’
  • 12 civilians, Indian soldier killed in Pakistani shelling after Operation Sindoor
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    12 civilians, Indian soldier killed in Pakistani shelling after Operation Sindoor
  • ‘Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were’: A young soldier-poet denounces war
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    ‘Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were’: A young soldier-poet denounces war
  • Rush Hour: Pakistan authorises military response to Indian strikes, 22 alleged Maoists killed & more
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    Rush Hour: Pakistan authorises military response to Indian strikes, 22 alleged Maoists killed & more
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Watch: Why the Janata Party decided to make its own cola in 1977

They wanted the people of India to never forget the Emergency. So this is what they came up with.

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Jul 10, 2017 · 09:00 am
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