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  • Food habits that work as well as weight-loss drugs
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    Food habits that work as well as weight-loss drugs

  • Why are Bangladeshis turning against India?
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    Why are Bangladeshis turning against India?

  • How India could cut its reliance on China for rare earth minerals
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    How India could cut its reliance on China for rare earth minerals

  • The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished
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    The first woman who climbed to the top of the world – and vanished

  • Short stories from Nagaland: A young man’s maiden visit to a clothing showroom doesn’t go as planned
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    Short stories from Nagaland: A young man’s maiden visit to a clothing showroom doesn’t go as planned

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    Silent universities, collapsing republics: When thought becomes a crime

  • Watch: Why workers at an Adani power plant in Jharkhand went on a strike
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    Watch: Why workers at an Adani power plant in Jharkhand went on a strike

  • How Rohingyas were expelled from Assam detention centre, despite their pleas pending in court
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    How Rohingyas were expelled from Assam detention centre, despite their pleas pending in court

  • Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025): A bright star who rewrote the story of the cosmos
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    Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025): A bright star who rewrote the story of the cosmos

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    ‘An emotional drama within the world of crime’: Mani Ratnam on ‘Thug Life’

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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.’

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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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