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    Startup stories: How two young men tried to make drinking tea cool with an investment of Rs 3 lakh

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    ‘Literature gives you something history can’t’: Editor Mini Krishnan on classic Indian stories

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    When the British considered punishing Iran for the harassment of Indian pilgrims

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    Why Heart Lamp’s Booker win breaks many barriers

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    Twinkle, twinkle, little star: Cosmology and the composition of verse

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    Early, intense heatwaves scorch mango crops in Konkan

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    Why Sudeshna Shome Ghosh took on ‘one of the toughest jobs in publishing’: Children’s picture books

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    Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge

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    ‘April May 99’ review: An irresistibly charming summer vacation

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Watch: Protestors topple statue of Christopher Columbus, then spit on it, in St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Columbus’ statues were brought down elsewhere in America too.

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Jun 11, 2020 · 02:24 pm
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Destroy all the statues. Spit on the shameful history.

On Wednesday, activists with a Native American advocacy group tossed a rope around a statue of Christopher Columbus, tugged it to the ground, danced and spit on the statue.

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— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) June 11, 2020

That ☝🏽was in St. Paul, Minnesota. Demonstrators also pulled down statues of Christopher Columbus in Richmond, Virginia, and decapitated another in Boston, targeting monuments of settler colonialism and white supremacy. https://t.co/IqUeSUggEO

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— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) June 11, 2020
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