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  • ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
  • ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
  • Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
  • From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  • Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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    Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela
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    NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela
  • The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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    The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
  • ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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    ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
  • Why drones are surveying Indian villages
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    Why drones are surveying Indian villages
  • From the memoir: Novelist B Jeyamohan writes about the matriarchal family system he grew up in
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    From the memoir: Novelist B Jeyamohan writes about the matriarchal family system he grew up in
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Watch: Muslims cremate Hindu man after his relatives refuse to turn up owing to coronavirus fears

Relatives of Ravishankar of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr refused to come forward to lift his bier, reported ‘Navbharat Times’.

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Mar 30, 2020 · 01:09 pm
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In Bulandshahr, a man named Ravishankar died. Because of the #COVID fear, none of his relatives came to lift the bier. His Muslim neighbours came,lifted the bier & also chanted "Ram Naam Satya hai" in the funeral procession. pic.twitter.com/g4TLPsxdpH

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  1. ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh

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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
  4. From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers

    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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    Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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