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    Exclusion of Dalit converts from Scheduled Caste status revives constitutional dilemma

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    In pictures: The fisherfolk in the path of Mumbai’s $1.8 billion Coastal Road

  • Interview: How will El Niño affect the monsoon in India?
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    Interview: How will El Niño affect the monsoon in India?

  • ‘Farming enables my writing, and my writing enables my farming’: Daniyal Mueenuddin
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    ‘Farming enables my writing, and my writing enables my farming’: Daniyal Mueenuddin

  • India must realise that resilience isn’t an economic strategy – it needs a clear economic philosophy
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    India must realise that resilience isn’t an economic strategy – it needs a clear economic philosophy

  • How Silicon Valley misreads JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’
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    How Silicon Valley misreads JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’

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    A new book recounts how Maruti Vinayak Gokarn built automotive tyre valve-makers Triton

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    Romila Thapar’s memoir, ‘Just Being’: A fearless journey of an autonomous woman

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    Why India’s Opposition parties should be worried about the cockroach movement

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A nebula is a giant cloud made of dust and gases in space. The Butterfly Nebula stretches for more than two light-years.

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Gorgeous zoom into the planetary nebula NGC 6302, known as the Butterfly Nebula

It stretches for more than two light-years, which is half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star.

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