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    For children: Khichdi, mulligatawny soup, and other culinary gifts from India to the world

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    ‘Ikka review: Sunny Deol is both defence lawyer and prosecutor

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    ‘Register Me as Kulbhushan’: This Bengal partition novel is a paean to the human ability to adapt

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    July global nonfiction: The ‘hidden’ creature and histories that best tell our shared stories

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Watch: UP police officer claims using ‘gangajal’ and sandalwood has improved law and order

Nauchandi police station SHO Prem Chand Sharma’s ‘safety protocol’ includes applying a mix of sandalwood and ‘gangajal’ on visitors’ foreheads, and ‘mantras’.

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Here, SHO Sharma while speaking to @hindipatrakar claims sprinkling gangajal and applying sandalwood teeka on forehead has brought a positive change in the law and order. pic.twitter.com/tU0kuTAK1b

— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) March 28, 2021

SHO Prem Chand Sharma in UP's Meerut has been “purifying” visitors with Gangajal while chanting a "sanitization mantra". He has been giving a bottle of Gangajal as a gift to visitors at Nauchandi police station ahead of Holi. pic.twitter.com/J3atuaeCgr

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