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  • 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

  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

  • 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

  • ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown

  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • 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’

  • 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

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‘Why is my name so hard to pronounce?’: UK launches its first South Asian Heritage Month with a poem

The month, which will celebrate South Asian cultures and their resonance across the United Kingdom, began on 18th July and will last until 17th August.

Scroll Staff
Jul 21, 2020 · 11:16 am
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It's finally here! We are very proud to announce the launch of the very first UK #southasianheritagemonth with this incredible collaboration between @hussainManawer @itsanitarani and @nirajchag with poem ‘I have a question’.#Launchday pic.twitter.com/NFh9scS99e

— South Asian Heritage Month (@SAHM_UK) July 17, 2020
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