Video: Why Burhanpur, not Agra, was Shah Jahan’s first choice for the Taj Mahal
His wife Mumtaz Mahal was buried in the central Indian town for six months before her body was shifted north.
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1In Lahore, a back-to-roots journey and a taste of gracious Pakistani hospitality
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2Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not
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3Sunday book pick: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1848 social media sensation book ‘White Nights’
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4‘Women’s rights’ are a convenient cover for UCC’s intrusive provisions
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5‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
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6Explained: How a landmark Supreme Court judgement has ended the governor’s ‘pocket veto’
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7The weight loss paradox: Why shedding kilos comes with a risk
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8Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
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9In ‘Dr. BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’, living through caste injustice and seeking a way out
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10The short stories in ‘The Second Marriage Of Kunju Namboodiri’ give new life to Malayalam classics
