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  • ‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves
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    ‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves
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    Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
  • Why Ambedkar’s statue has been barred from the Madhya Pradesh High Court
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    Why Ambedkar’s statue has been barred from the Madhya Pradesh High Court
  • Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride
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    Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride
  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
  • For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse
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    For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse
  • How Zohran Mamdani is busting the fake nostalgia of ‘Iran before the Islamic revolution’ memes
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    How Zohran Mamdani is busting the fake nostalgia of ‘Iran before the Islamic revolution’ memes
  • Desolate landscape to tourist hub: How China is transforming Mount Everest
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    Desolate landscape to tourist hub: How China is transforming Mount Everest
  • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride
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