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  • 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
  • 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 beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
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    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
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    Watch: Sneak peek of ‘Ramayana: The Introduction’, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash
  • 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
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‘Two slaps’: Union Minister of State Prahlad Singh Patel to man asking for oxygen amidst shortage

The minister of state for Culture and Tourism threatened a patient’s attendant outside a district hospital in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh.

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Apr 23, 2021 · 10:05 am
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Madhya Pradesh | Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel says "will slap you", when the attendant of a patient tells him about oxygen shortage.#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/WvhhDd0d8f

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