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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

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
    8

    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

  • 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

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

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Covid-19 crisis: Death, despair rages across India, healthcare facilities fail to cater to patients

People continue to die in Delhi hospital parking lots, UP resident blames government apathy for his mother’s death – scenes from India’s Covid-19 tragedy.

Scroll Staff
Apr 22, 2021 · 06:38 pm
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"Covid-19 has hit this country with a ferocity not seen before...but not unexpected either". WARNING - this is a very distressing but necessary report from @yogital, Fred Scott and Sanjay Ganguly on the human catastrophe unfolding in #Delhi. Please watch #CovidIndia #BBCNewsTen pic.twitter.com/A5Pi1nwd0n

— Nicola Careem (@NicolaCareem) April 21, 2021

मेरी मां को #covid ने नहीं, सिस्टम की लापरवाही ने मारा है । #lucknow #soslucknow #Oxygen #COVIDEmergency @UPGovt @myogiadityanath @narendramodi @rajnathsingh @112UttarPradesh @CMOfficeUP

1) (Continued below..) 🙏 pic.twitter.com/lidQmZ5y7R

— Naman Chaturvedi (@Namankasturi) April 21, 2021

3)@brajeshlive @suryapsingh_IAS @SHIFUJIJAIHIND @PragyaLive @digvijaysinghd9 @TheDeshBhakt@varungrover @ajitanjum @Samdish pic.twitter.com/R4nEwpnwRu

— Naman Chaturvedi (@Namankasturi) April 21, 2021

In Faridabad, bodies of #COVID19 patients cremated in a parking lot. pic.twitter.com/Pi8Lxvbe83

— NDTV (@ndtv) April 22, 2021

Lucknow Crematoriums Burning 24/7 With #Covid Bodies..😷

Voted for Temples Masjids
and Castes,
And expect Hospitals.... 🤷🏻‍♂️

FUNDE HI HILE HUE HAIN..😤#WhoFailedIndia #मोदी_भाषण_रोको_आक्सीजन_नहीं pic.twitter.com/ow22hww0Os

— AVIR (@AvirWithINC) April 22, 2021

SHOCKING: Distressed attendants plead before Union Mantri Prahlad Patel for oxygen but the absent MP says “will give you 2 slaps”!

"ऐसे करेगा तो 2 खायेगा"! pic.twitter.com/ha7vy3q8lH

— Prashant Kumar (@scribe_prashant) April 22, 2021
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