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  • ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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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
  • 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
  • Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
  • NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela
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    NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela
  • ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
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    ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ director Reema Kagti: ‘A film that celebrates the magic of cinema’
  • 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
  • Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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    Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
  • ‘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
  • Was China’s mega dam announcement a trial balloon?
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    Was China’s mega dam announcement a trial balloon?
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Watch: Derailed train driver saved from death and injury by giant whale sculpture

The train crashed through the barriers at the De Akkers station in Spijkenisse near Rotterdam in Holland, ending on the fins of the sculpture of a whale.

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Artful death dodger. Police and fire crews surround scene trying to establish how to release the metro #spijkenisse pic.twitter.com/I36qpxIVK2

— anna holligan 🎙 (@annaholligan) November 2, 2020

The Netherlands: A tram driver's life was literally saved by a whale's tail when his tram derailed. pic.twitter.com/zvJ8tXEQCz

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  1. ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh

    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
  2. ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism

    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
  3. From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers

    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  4. Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans

    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
  5. NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela

    NGT issues notice to Uttar Pradesh over complaints of open defecation at Kumbh Mela
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