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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
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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
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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
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    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
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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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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