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  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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Watch: Scenes from explosion in Iran as clinic burns with patients inside, at least 19 killed

This is the second explosion in Iran in less than a week, after the first one last Friday near a military site close to Tehran.

Scroll Staff
Jul 01, 2020 · 12:54 pm
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Video—Inside the burned facility in northern Tehran, #Iran

Explosion/fire left 19 dead, including 15 women & 4 men, and 14 injured.

Locals ask could this have been a deliberate act to take attention away from the recent missile site explosion?

(Thread below for more details) https://t.co/IxCedwVgyT pic.twitter.com/O33vWWvfzw

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) July 1, 2020

June 30—Tehran, #Iran
The hospital is burning in flames & voices are heard expressing grave concerns about the many patients inside the facility. pic.twitter.com/XHd6TklU9y

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) June 30, 2020

June 30—Tehran, #Iran
Locals say the blaze (seen in previous videos) have been contained but there are still fires in the hospital's basement.

This footage appears to be people attempting to escape the facility through a large window. pic.twitter.com/WJ6joHO7Xt

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) June 30, 2020
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