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  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  • ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family
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    ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family

  • Why a letter by Chhattisgarh’s forest department ignited protests
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    Why a letter by Chhattisgarh’s forest department ignited protests

  • ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case’ review: A balancing act between fact and drama
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    ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case’ review: A balancing act between fact and drama

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

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
    7

    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

  • Scroll Adda: Why this Ambedkarite academic wants more people to study India's Savarnas
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    Scroll Adda: Why this Ambedkarite academic wants more people to study India's Savarnas

  • ‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
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    ‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas

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Watch: This song about migrant workers is an earnest request to the government for help

‘We leave our homes behind and work as labourers in cities because we are helpless.’

Scroll Staff
May 11, 2020 · 04:44 pm
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Just leave everything & listen to this song of #Migrant. So Powerful a composition. If this does not beseech your heart, don't know what will.

RT to make him heard.
Video courtesy: @AshishDDSharma @anubhavsinha @PritishNandy @srijitspeaketh @_AdilHussain @Javedakhtarjadu pic.twitter.com/41OsQLmH4K

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