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  • ‘Aaj Tak’ anchor Anjana Om Kashyap files defamation suit against Bihar educator, YouTuber ‘Khan Sir’
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    ‘Aaj Tak’ anchor Anjana Om Kashyap files defamation suit against Bihar educator, YouTuber ‘Khan Sir’

  • In images: Day after Kolkata flower market demolitions, vendors return to work and hope for the best
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    In images: Day after Kolkata flower market demolitions, vendors return to work and hope for the best

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    The Indian freedom fighter who ended his career as a captain on ‘Star Trek’

  • The journalist who asked Modi a question
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    The journalist who asked Modi a question

  • ‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80
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    ‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80

  • Paan once symbolised courtly status in India. Then it became an unsanitary, ‘native’ habit
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    Paan once symbolised courtly status in India. Then it became an unsanitary, ‘native’ habit

  • ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters
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    ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters

  • ‘They have sold themselves’: At ‘cockroach’ gathering in Delhi, protestors rage against the system
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    ‘They have sold themselves’: At ‘cockroach’ gathering in Delhi, protestors rage against the system

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    Was Akbar really a ‘secular’ icon?

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    Watching the Cockroach Janta Party – cautiously

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Migrant labourers from West Bengal stuck in Vishwas Nagar, Ghazipur, Manesar, Greater Noida and other areas have run out of food and are afraid to step out from fear of police. Here they appeal for help to get back home. Helpline numbers have not worked they said. @THNewDelhi pic.twitter.com/GNSv7Dj9a9

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