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  • How the judiciary paved the way for the current spate of slum demolitions in Delhi
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    How the judiciary paved the way for the current spate of slum demolitions in Delhi

  • ‘Incorrect’ that India lost Rafale ‘jets’ during Operation Sindoor, says defence secretary
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    ‘Incorrect’ that India lost Rafale ‘jets’ during Operation Sindoor, says defence secretary

  • ‘Failures for having dreamed of a united India’: Diplomat KM Panikkar anticipated Partition in 1941
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    ‘Failures for having dreamed of a united India’: Diplomat KM Panikkar anticipated Partition in 1941

  • Silica gel: What’s in those little packs and is it toxic?
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    Silica gel: What’s in those little packs and is it toxic?

  • In photographs: Rebirth at the water’s edge – a journey into India’s stepwells
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    In photographs: Rebirth at the water’s edge – a journey into India’s stepwells

  • How Poonch residents took on godi media for defaming a Muslim cleric killed in shelling by Pakistan
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    How Poonch residents took on godi media for defaming a Muslim cleric killed in shelling by Pakistan

  • How Mumbai neglected its groundwater – only to become dependent on it
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    How Mumbai neglected its groundwater – only to become dependent on it

  • Watch: Ranveer Singh plays a super-spy in Aditya Dhar’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Dhurandhar’
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    Watch: Ranveer Singh plays a super-spy in Aditya Dhar’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Dhurandhar’

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

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    About 4,000 refugees flee from Myanmar's Chin state into Mizoram amid renewed conflict

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Watch: The delightful (and mathematical) art of making soan papdi

The popular, flaky sweet is made out of a sugar, ghee and gram-flour dough which is repeatedly pulled out and folded back on itself to form layers.

Scroll Staff
Aug 03, 2019 · 10:18 am
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The flaky delight known as Soan Papdi, begins as a ring made of sugar and ghee.

Fold it back on itself, pull it out and repeat. The number of strands becomes two, four, then eight!

So when next you enjoy one the math geek in you should give thanks to the magic of powers of two! pic.twitter.com/l9WvkYJbUU

— Mukund Thattai (@thattai) August 2, 2019
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