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    Caste as seen through an Orientalist lens: The ironic legacy of 18th-century Company paintings

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    Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll

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    For children: Four friends are on a camping trip in a grand amusement park, but something is fishy

  • Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods
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    Delhi’s street vendors aren’t ‘illegal’ – sweeping evictions violate rights, crush livelihoods

  • What two deaths say about ‘peninsular’ India’s insular view of the North East
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    What two deaths say about ‘peninsular’ India’s insular view of the North East

  • Five crucial questions the report indicting Justice Varma does not answer
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    Five crucial questions the report indicting Justice Varma does not answer

  • ‘Panchayat’ season 4 review: Easy-going charm loses the vote to an over-hyped election
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    ‘Panchayat’ season 4 review: Easy-going charm loses the vote to an over-hyped election

  • Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death
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    Short fiction: Young Aarav and his mother try to return to life after his father’s death

  • 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

  • When India nearly barred Israel from a Davis Cup tie in Delhi
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    When India nearly barred Israel from a Davis Cup tie in Delhi

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Watch: Pope Francis visits Qaraqosh, a Christian-majority city in Iraq

Qaraqosh was under the occupation of the Islamic State terrorist organisation before being liberated in 2016.

Scroll Staff
Mar 08, 2021 · 01:46 pm
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Pope Francis leading the Angelus with the Catholic Community of Qaraqosh, in the universal language of the Church, in Iraq’s largest Catholic Church, looted, desecrated and burnt by ISIS militants, now restored to its former glory #PopeInIraq pic.twitter.com/xAO60b4c8k

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) March 7, 2021

The Pope being welcomed with traditional Iraqi chobi and orchestra is the only news I needed today.

pic.twitter.com/1ROHQ3125J

— Reaam ريام (@reaam_mh) March 5, 2021

He’s here!

*not the actual pope #PopeInIraq #Iraq #Qaraqosh pic.twitter.com/hx0PSJ4m1W

— Gareth Browne (@BrowneGareth) March 7, 2021
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