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  • ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters
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    ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters

  • Penguin won’t distribute Joe Sacco’s graphic novel on 2013 riots, ‘The Indian Express’ reports
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    Penguin won’t distribute Joe Sacco’s graphic novel on 2013 riots, ‘The Indian Express’ reports

  • ‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80
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    ‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80

  • Cockroach Janta Party protest: Youth kept trapped in Hindu-Muslim politics, says Abhijeet Dipke
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    Cockroach Janta Party protest: Youth kept trapped in Hindu-Muslim politics, says Abhijeet Dipke

  • In images: Day after Kolkata flower market demolitions, vendors return to work and hope for the best
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    In images: Day after Kolkata flower market demolitions, vendors return to work and hope for the best

  • Does Abhijeet Dipke’s popularity signal a new age of Dalit leaders?
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    Does Abhijeet Dipke’s popularity signal a new age of Dalit leaders?

  • Bihar educator, YouTuber ‘Khan Sir’ booked in case linked to firing outside his coaching institute
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    Bihar educator, YouTuber ‘Khan Sir’ booked in case linked to firing outside his coaching institute

  • Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others
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    Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others

  • The problem with David Attenborough’s spectator environmentalism
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    The problem with David Attenborough’s spectator environmentalism

  • For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal
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    For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal

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Cyclone Amphan: Scenes from the day after reveal wanton destruction in Kolkata and West Bengal

Seventy-six people have been reported to be killed so far in West Bengal.

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May 22, 2020 · 12:10 pm
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#CycloneAmphanUpdate Destruction caused by Amphan in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/F5yut7kteV

— Anjali Pathak (@Anjali_0497) May 20, 2020

Amphan has left us with enormous destruction to #Kolkata city.#Amphan #AmphanUpdate #AmphanCyclon pic.twitter.com/JJre7oZ9Up

— Mohammad Feroz Khan محمد فيروز خان (@IAMFKhan_Sufe) May 21, 2020

#Amphan ‘s Trail of Destruction in Bengal !!! pic.twitter.com/xMNmTbiFm0

— Supriya Bhardwaj (@Supriya23bh) May 21, 2020

Boundary Wall of our flat.
Amphan Cyclone Effect. :")#AmphanCyclon#prayforwestbengal pic.twitter.com/6Znd14oNaP

— Koustav Ghosh (@koustavghosh_) May 21, 2020

The Aftermath of Cyclone Amphan.
This was the worst cyclone to hit the state of West Bengal and Odisha in the last 30 years. The WB CM announced that 72 people have died in the state out of which 17 are from Kolkata.
Most people still don’t have electricity or mobile networks. pic.twitter.com/1LyqYmGYXZ

— Faye DSouza (@fayedsouza) May 21, 2020

Kolkata has gone dark ! Unstable internet, roads closed, no power ... Bengal facing a massive disaster... CM Mamata said that she was “shocked” to see such devastation Amphan@MamataOfficial pic.twitter.com/YIrpxqqPGz

— Indiapost News (@IPNews_24) May 20, 2020
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