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  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case’ review: A balancing act between fact and drama
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    ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family
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    Why a letter by Chhattisgarh’s forest department ignited protests
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    Scroll Adda: Why this Ambedkarite academic wants more people to study India's Savarnas
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
  • 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
  • A new book suggests ways for professionals to develop AI literacy to thrive in an AI-first world
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    A new book suggests ways for professionals to develop AI literacy to thrive in an AI-first world
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    ‘Metro...In Dino’ review: A hot mess of mostly cold sentiment
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Watch: Married women lie on the ground for priests to walk over them as fertility ritual

The ritual takes place every year at Chhattisgarh’s annual Madai Mela.

Scroll Staff
Nov 23, 2020 · 04:14 pm
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#WATCH Hundreds of people gathered at the annual Madai Mela in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari on 20th November, amid the ongoing COVID19 pandemic pic.twitter.com/xZuFeNNrAO

— ANI (@ANI) November 22, 2020
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