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  • A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

  • Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
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    Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’

  • India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

  • ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women
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    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

  • What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times
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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

  • SC tells Centre to respond to plea by ‘4PM News’ challenging blocking of its YouTube channel
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    SC tells Centre to respond to plea by ‘4PM News’ challenging blocking of its YouTube channel

  • Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, local police claim
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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, local police claim

  • Donald Trump reiterates claim that he ‘helped settle’ tensions between India and Pakistan
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    Donald Trump reiterates claim that he ‘helped settle’ tensions between India and Pakistan

  • Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor
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    Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor

  • Rush Hour: Trump asks Apple not to raise production in India, ‘Indians pushed across border’ & more
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    Rush Hour: Trump asks Apple not to raise production in India, ‘Indians pushed across border’ & more

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Watch: Turkish journalist explains the seven steps of moving from a ‘democracy to dictatorship’

Ece Temelkuran had said that she was fired from a Turkish television channel in 2012 for being critical of the government.

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Jan 10, 2020 · 08:16 am
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How to lose a country — The seven steps from democracy to dictatorship.
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I know it can because it happened to us.
It happened to me.
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  1. A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’

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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

  4. ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

  5. What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

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