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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy
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    ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

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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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