Video: The ‘miracle rice’ that saved millions of Indians from going hungry in the 1960s
The IR8 rice, developed in the Philippines, kick-started the Green Revolution for much of the developing world.
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1Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
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2‘Bol Bol Rani’ review: Sai Tamhankar prevents a mind game thriller from being a brain fade
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3What Irom Sharmila, who fasted for 16 years, thinks about Sonam Wangchuck’s hunger strike
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4‘Birth of a Nation’: Forming independent India was a brutal exercise in preventing balkanisation
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5An Agniveer died in Operation Sindoor. A year later, his parents are still fighting for pension
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6Read in Hindi: An excerpt from Arundhati Roy’s memoir, ‘Meri Maa Meri Gangster’
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7Under UCC, only those with one marriage will have the right to live in Madhya Pradesh: CM
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8Tracing Odysseus’s journey shows myths and the real world overlapped in maps of the ancient world
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9CJP protest: Police force Sonam Wangchuk into hospital, Dipke begins indefinite hunger strike
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10‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village
