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

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

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    What Iranians in India think about the war and Tehran

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    The JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it?

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

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    Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll

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    Seven books by Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

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Women’s Day: 98-year-old Karthyayini Amma from Kerala was awarded the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the award to Karthyayini Amma for ‘writing the fourth standard equivalency course under Kerala Literacy Mission’.

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Mar 09, 2020 · 04:26 pm
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President Kovind presented the Nari Shakti Puraskar to Karthyayini Amma (98) from Alappuzha, Kerala. She appeared for writing the fourth standard equivalency course under Kerala Literacy Mission and bagged the first rank and scored 98% marks. #SheInspiresUs #WomensDay pic.twitter.com/v3FJJ4slcd

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 8, 2020
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