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  • A new book shows the many interesting ways Indians eat rice and combine it with other ingredients
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    A new book shows the many interesting ways Indians eat rice and combine it with other ingredients
  • A new biography of Aurangzeb examines the role of his queens and the harem in his empire
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    A new biography of Aurangzeb examines the role of his queens and the harem in his empire
  • Folktale: A hunter’s daughter falls sick from a curse once he begins poaching in the forests
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    Folktale: A hunter’s daughter falls sick from a curse once he begins poaching in the forests
  • What the SIT report on Ram temple donation theft does and does not say
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    What the SIT report on Ram temple donation theft does and does not say
  • How indie film ‘The Ink-Stained Hand & The Missing Thumb’ explores ‘emotional time’
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    How indie film ‘The Ink-Stained Hand & The Missing Thumb’ explores ‘emotional time’
  • How Japanese military officers freely scouted colonial India without raising British suspicion
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    How Japanese military officers freely scouted colonial India without raising British suspicion
  • ‘Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire’ rescues the emperor from both praise and condemnation
    7

    ‘Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire’ rescues the emperor from both praise and condemnation
  • Jayasree Kalathil, Mini Chandran, Murali Ranganathan, Shefali Jha win NIF Translation Fellowships
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    Jayasree Kalathil, Mini Chandran, Murali Ranganathan, Shefali Jha win NIF Translation Fellowships
  • ‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village
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    ‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village
  • For children: Five friends stage a play about former Indian men’s cricket team captain, MS Dhoni
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    For children: Five friends stage a play about former Indian men’s cricket team captain, MS Dhoni
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Former US President Obama had asked for greater preparedness to deal with pandemics following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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5 years earlier.. pic.twitter.com/yW9isiUqkh

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Obama warned Americans about preparing for a global pandemic back in 2014 pic.twitter.com/eg7prLamm6

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  1. A new book shows the many interesting ways Indians eat rice and combine it with other ingredients

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    Folktale: A hunter’s daughter falls sick from a curse once he begins poaching in the forests
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    What the SIT report on Ram temple donation theft does and does not say
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