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  • ‘Chikkamma Tours Pvt Ltd’: A cosy Bangalore murder mystery with a realistic portrayal of queer lives
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    ‘Chikkamma Tours Pvt Ltd’: A cosy Bangalore murder mystery with a realistic portrayal of queer lives
  • All we are and all we aspire to be: C Premkumar on the appeal of his fan favourite ‘Meiyazhagan’
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    All we are and all we aspire to be: C Premkumar on the appeal of his fan favourite ‘Meiyazhagan’

  • India’s food plate and palate have changed – but anxieties old and new persist
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    India’s food plate and palate have changed – but anxieties old and new persist
  • ‘A Tamilian trapped among three Punjabis’: Subhash Ghai rewinds to the ‘Taal’ soundtrack
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    ‘A Tamilian trapped among three Punjabis’: Subhash Ghai rewinds to the ‘Taal’ soundtrack
  • Interview: How the 16th-century Basilica of Bom Jesus became an icon of Goan identity
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    Interview: How the 16th-century Basilica of Bom Jesus became an icon of Goan identity
  • Interview: Who holds the cards in the Maharashtra election?
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    Interview: Who holds the cards in the Maharashtra election?
  • Australia cap on foreign student intake hit will Indians hard
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    Australia cap on foreign student intake hit will Indians hard
  • Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
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    Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
  • Crushing cycle of poverty, trafficking, domestic violence: Underbelly of Assam’s verdant tea gardens
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    Crushing cycle of poverty, trafficking, domestic violence: Underbelly of Assam’s verdant tea gardens
  • Ramachandra Guha: 120 years later, Gandhi’s Phoenix Farm still has the power to move visitors
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    Ramachandra Guha: 120 years later, Gandhi’s Phoenix Farm still has the power to move visitors
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Watch: Saloni Gaur imitates Shashi Tharoor’s wordy ways, he tweets back

‘This is a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious misunderstanding.’

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Jun 16, 2020 · 01:37 pm
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Is Chandrachur Tharoor or Tharoor Chandrachur?Nevermind. pic.twitter.com/gUU3BeqPgu

— Saloni Gaur (Nazma Aapi) (@salonayyy) June 13, 2020

Flattered by the comedic imitation. However, I would like to believe that I am not such a garrulous sesquipedalian... Clearly the artiste on the screen does not suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 13, 2020
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