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  • UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances
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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

  • June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life
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    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life

  • From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution
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    From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution

  • Nagpur woman who crossed Line of Control from Kargil booked for espionage
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    Nagpur woman who crossed Line of Control from Kargil booked for espionage

  • Ramachandra Guha: Trump’s attack on US universities is a tragedy for the entire world
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    Ramachandra Guha: Trump’s attack on US universities is a tragedy for the entire world

  • Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic
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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

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‘I know how much a single civil servant can do to prevent even the worst of massacres’: Harsh Mander

Activist Harsh Mander’s account of how the civil servants failed to prevent the 2002 Gujarat riots is important to revisit.

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Feb 26, 2020 · 10:43 am
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“I know how much a single Civil Servant can do to control violence,” says @harsh_mander, a former IAS officer with years of experience in controlling riots like #Delhi is witnessing right now.pic.twitter.com/kUUNaeQemC

— Natasha Badhwar (@natashabadhwar) February 25, 2020
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  1. UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  4. Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

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