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  • A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

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    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

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    The Congolese philosopher who liberated ‘Africa’ from the chains of Western thought

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    President asks SC if timeline can be imposed to decide on bills referred by governor

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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

  • Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
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    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, local police claim

  • Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor
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    Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor

  • Harsh Mander: Pahalgam and after – the singular burden of apology
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    Harsh Mander: Pahalgam and after – the singular burden of apology

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Covid-19 crisis: The pandemic has turned into a desperate plea for oxygen and hospital beds

The unrelenting second wave of Covid-19 continues to batter the healthcare system.

Scroll Staff
Apr 29, 2021 · 10:01 am
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अस्पताल में ऑक्सीजन खत्म होने का अनाउंसमेंट..अपना मरीज अस्पताल से ले जाएं..ये गाजियाबाद के राजनगर का गार्गी अस्पताल है.. pic.twitter.com/uEHkMmiKFf

— Pragya Mishra (@PragyaLive) April 27, 2021

Communities helping each other, when no sense of a government or institution that can help exists. This is Oxygen Sewa in Delhi's Bhogal Market area. Video ctsy: Anon. pic.twitter.com/rDb1avjWYR

— Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) April 27, 2021

Watch long queue outside a oxygen cylinder refilling center in Sikandra, Agra (only one side of the facility's main gate).

People have been waiting for over 10 hours, braving scorching heat, to get supply of life saving gas for their relatives in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/qGmREZIaGR

— Deepak-Lavania (@dklavaniaTOI) April 27, 2021

#CoronavirusCrisis | COVID surge grips #UttarPradesh; acute oxygen shortage hits Agra. Watch this ground report by @JournoAshutosh. #Newstrack pic.twitter.com/hsJK8MYAFk

— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) April 27, 2021

Bodies piling up.

Makeshift crematoriums burning nonstop.

Hospitals resorting to social media to plead for supplies.

This is the shocking state of India's COVID crisis.

H/T @amcoren pic.twitter.com/2jtF63ifYN

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) April 26, 2021

"At least 250 to 300 bodies are brought here daily."

India's crematoriums overwhelmed with pile-up of bodies amid Covid spike https://t.co/DUSa8M1GaK pic.twitter.com/mavMBlNUBb

— The National (@TheNationalNews) April 28, 2021
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