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  • ‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
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    ‘We owe nothing to the state’: Why this live-in couple is taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code
  • Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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    Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
  • A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
    3

    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
  • Reward yourself, forget the 21-day myth: Ways to get into a habit loop
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    Reward yourself, forget the 21-day myth: Ways to get into a habit loop
  • How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
    5

    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
  • A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
    6

    A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
  • Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
    7

    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
  • Cow vigilantes kill truck driver’s assistant in Haryana, five arrested
    8

    Cow vigilantes kill truck driver’s assistant in Haryana, five arrested
  • All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse
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    All we imagine as work: The many lives of the tenacious, transnational Malayali nurse

  • Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
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    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
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Watch: This village in South India ends its Diwali celebrations with a cow-dung festival

Gumatapura village on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border celebrates the Gorehabba festival every year.

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Nov 19, 2020 · 03:47 pm
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VIDEO: The festival is unique to a village where locals believe their god -- Beereshwara Swamy -- was born in cow excrement pic.twitter.com/MGqax4lVYa

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    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
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    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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