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  • A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy
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    A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy
  • ‘Test’ review: Testing times for the film’s characters and viewers
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    ‘Test’ review: Testing times for the film’s characters and viewers
  • India’s passport ranking drops to 148 among 199 countries
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    India’s passport ranking drops to 148 among 199 countries
  • What underpins India’s deep education inequality?
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    What underpins India’s deep education inequality?
  • Rush Hour: Congress and AIMIM move SC against Waqf Bill, Modi meets Muhammad Yunus and more
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    Rush Hour: Congress and AIMIM move SC against Waqf Bill, Modi meets Muhammad Yunus and more
  • How a young couple’s death made India and Pakistan reopen the ‘bridge to peace’ – briefly
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    How a young couple’s death made India and Pakistan reopen the ‘bridge to peace’ – briefly
  • With the Waqf Bill, the state brings a legal bulldozer to minority rights
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    With the Waqf Bill, the state brings a legal bulldozer to minority rights
  • Reader’s guide: The opening lines of the six novels on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist
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    Reader’s guide: The opening lines of the six novels on the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist
  • Trump joins the war on history, trains guns on museums ‘driven by ideology not truth’
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    Trump joins the war on history, trains guns on museums ‘driven by ideology not truth’
  • ‘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
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Watch: The legacy of 2012 London Olympics is development, but at the cost of displacement

Homelessness has risen 60 percent in east London’s Stratford area since 2012 Olympics

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Aug 06, 2017 · 09:08 am
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  1. A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy

    A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy
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    ‘Test’ review: Testing times for the film’s characters and viewers
  3. India’s passport ranking drops to 148 among 199 countries

    India’s passport ranking drops to 148 among 199 countries
  4. What underpins India’s deep education inequality?

    What underpins India’s deep education inequality?
  5. Rush Hour: Congress and AIMIM move SC against Waqf Bill, Modi meets Muhammad Yunus and more

    Rush Hour: Congress and AIMIM move SC against Waqf Bill, Modi meets Muhammad Yunus and more
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