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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
  • ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
  • ‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language
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    ‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language
  • From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  • Karnataka: Bus conductor assaulted for not speaking Marathi in Belagavi, four arrested
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    Karnataka: Bus conductor assaulted for not speaking Marathi in Belagavi, four arrested
  • The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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    The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
  • Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
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    Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
  • Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
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    Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
  • ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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    ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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Listen: On poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s birth anniversary, actor Manoj Bajpayee recites his poem

Dinkar’s ‘Parashurama ki Prateeksha’ was written in the early 1960s.

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Sep 23, 2020 · 05:53 pm
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Manoj Bajpayee recites Parashuram Ki Pareeksha | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | Birth Anniversary@BajpayeeManoj @rajyasabhatv @DrsagarJNU @anubhavsinha @kavishala @Hindi_panktiyan @Hindinama2 @CinemaHindi @brahmatmajay @abhinavmania @RaajSonak @qayyum0509 @rekha_bhardwaj @gulrayys pic.twitter.com/xe27Jk1aDI

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