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  • A new self-help book recommends ways to step out of the comfort zone and take on new challenges
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    A new self-help book recommends ways to step out of the comfort zone and take on new challenges
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    The JCB Prize for Literature has shut down. What else has ended with it?
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    Can Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian to run to be New York mayor, pull off an upset?
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    Some want Israel to use Lanka-style brutality against Hamas – ignoring the strategy’s true costs
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    Supreme Court stopped ‘bulldozer justice’, executive cannot be judge and jury: CJI Gavai
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    Scroll Adda: ‘Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history’
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    For children: Four friends are on a camping trip in a grand amusement park, but something is fishy
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    Review: Season 2 of ‘Kerala Crime Files’ is more ambitious, busier and meatier
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    ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ review: A well-intentioned, often heart-warming and simplistic tale
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Watch: Here is a man singing soulfully to a mynah perched on a car. The bird joins in

‘Is there is a cure for death?’

Scroll Staff
Dec 16, 2020 · 03:09 pm
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Haeri wanakh na tota se kya yilaaj kari na maut si?
(Meaning: Little sparrow won't you tell the parrot, there be any cure for death?). The singer is actually singing this to the sparrow in this video. Just lovely pic.twitter.com/kpELRR2F8E

— Shuja ul haq (@ShujaUH) December 15, 2020
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