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  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Through a reader’s eyes: Bloomsday celebrations in James Joyce’s city, Dublin
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    Through a reader’s eyes: Bloomsday celebrations in James Joyce’s city, Dublin

  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

  • ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker
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    ‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker

  • Jeet Thayil’s new ‘documentary novel’: The restless lives of those shaped by separation across times
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    Jeet Thayil’s new ‘documentary novel’: The restless lives of those shaped by separation across times

  • Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
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    Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed

  • Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
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    Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India

  • In Bengaluru, an ancient play finds new voice in the world’s oldest living dramatic tradition
    8

    In Bengaluru, an ancient play finds new voice in the world’s oldest living dramatic tradition

  • What Iranians in India think about the war and Tehran
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    What Iranians in India think about the war and Tehran

  • ‘Mistry’ review: New ‘Monk’ in a newish bottle
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    ‘Mistry’ review: New ‘Monk’ in a newish bottle

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Watch: Delightfully intelligent elephant outsmarts an electrified fence

These gentle giants have even been known to toss twigs at fences to test them for electricity.

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Nov 06, 2019 · 08:30 am
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Elephants will go where they want. Solar electric fencing maintained at 5kv was designed to deter them. It’s intelligence makes them cleaver to breach that barrier. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/vbgcGTZfij

— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) November 4, 2019
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  1. Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

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