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  • UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances
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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

  • This new cookbook has compiled heirloom recipes from every corner of India
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    This new cookbook has compiled heirloom recipes from every corner of India

  • ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
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    ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side

  • From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution
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    From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution

  • ‘Andhar Maya’ review: An ancestral home in the Konkan is overrun by ghosts and greed
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    ‘Andhar Maya’ review: An ancestral home in the Konkan is overrun by ghosts and greed

  • Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic
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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

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‘India’s workforce is not the bright boys of Bengaluru’: Journalist P Sainath on the migrant crisis

‘The country is beginning to learn what a gigantic force migrant labour is in running this country.’

Scroll Staff
May 08, 2020 · 08:31 am
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"You're suddenly finding a lot of sectors hamstrung by the disappearance of the migrant labor that made them. So the country is beginning to figure out who its workforce is. And it's not the bright boys of Bengaluru" pic.twitter.com/NaCpSgjGkh

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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

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