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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
    8

    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken

  • 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

  • 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

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Watch: Scenes from over two dozen wildfires raging across California (and in Oregon)

Rescue missions are tackling 25 major blazes across California, which have scorched a record high of 2.2 million acres across the state, according to CNN.

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Sep 09, 2020 · 05:49 pm
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#Wildfires in California continue and growing fear of increasingly dangerous/windy conditions in the coming days.

This is Creek fire north of Fresno in Sierra National Forest.pic.twitter.com/ivTjeREcPF

— Scott From Scotland (@ScottDuncanWX) September 6, 2020

Several new fire in California today. The #CreekFire in Fresno County. #ValleyFire in San Diego County. #ElDoradoFire in San Bernardino County. Lots of smoke seen on satellite. pic.twitter.com/fnHu0ZgbvK

— Drew Tuma (@DrewTumaABC7) September 6, 2020

A "smokenado" was spotted twisting in Southern California as the Valley Fire continued to burn. https://t.co/iAh3res5hb pic.twitter.com/IH9b68MOoB

— ABC News (@ABC) September 8, 2020

Nearly 200 people were airlifted to safety over the weekend in California as thousands of firefighters battle nearly two dozen wildfires.

The Creek Fire alone has scorched more than 45,000 acres in central California so far.

Parts of California remain under a state of emergency pic.twitter.com/H2uXLqCDDP

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 7, 2020

2020 is just showing off now.

The El Dorado Fire, burning in San Bernardino County, California, was caused by a “smoke generating pyrotechnic device” — used AT A GENDER REVEAL PARTY...pic.twitter.com/ZZ70pzEruA

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 7, 2020

This is nuts. Downtown Stayton at 12:22pm. Be safe, everyone. #KGW #Oregon #Fire #Smoke #LionsheadFire @KGWNews pic.twitter.com/ff4MKKU4qm

— Christine Pitawanich (@CPitawanichKGW) September 8, 2020

It’s surreal, this was around 3pm n downtown #Salem, #Oregon. Between a very hot, dry Summer & uncharacteristically strong winds. The sky is eery and thick with smoke & ash#OregonFires#California#wildfires#ForestFire#America#USA pic.twitter.com/j1Lz1EYyH5

— 🍒Index Hakeem🍒 (@hakrashaa) September 9, 2020

Ash now falling from the skies in Salem from #wildfires pic.twitter.com/zvw1RHkphv

— Whitney Woodworth (@wmwoodworth) September 8, 2020

Wildfire smoke in oregon turned day into night. 5pm near salem, interstate 5.

*Home evacuations, smoke screen skies pic.twitter.com/A6HORZ3ggK

— A Respectable Wagon (@AntiqueWagon) September 9, 2020
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