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  • A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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    A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
  • A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
  • Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
    3

    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
  • ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
  • ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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    ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
  • How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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    How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city

  • Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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    Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
  • How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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    How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
  • Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
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    Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
  • The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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    The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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Watch: The nail-biting moments before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon

The original ‘moonwalk’.

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Jul 16, 2017 · 06:00 pm
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  1. A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister

    A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
  3. Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers

    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
  4. ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus

    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
  5. ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant

    ‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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