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  • How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
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    How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror

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    Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom

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    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

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    ‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man

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    Hindi’s Hindutva problem that supporters are not ready to reckon with

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    Rush Hour: Yemen postpones Kerala nurse’s execution, CPI leader shot dead and more

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    ‘Myth is a carrier of history, trauma, resistance’: Subi Taba on writing about Arunachal Pradesh

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    Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies

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    Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future

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    ‘Dhadak 2’ director Shazia Iqbal: ‘Caste is everywhere, not just in rural India’

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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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