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  • Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
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    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
  • How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
  • ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
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    ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
  • Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
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    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
  • A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
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    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
  • The flight of the florican: An ornithologist’s lifelong quest to save a terrestrial bird
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    The flight of the florican: An ornithologist’s lifelong quest to save a terrestrial bird

  • India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
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    India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
  • Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
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    Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
  • March fiction: Six recently published Indian novels and short stories for a new month of reading
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    March fiction: Six recently published Indian novels and short stories for a new month of reading
  • Court acquittal three years on is cold comfort for Muslim man rebuilding life after demolition
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    Court acquittal three years on is cold comfort for Muslim man rebuilding life after demolition
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Mushref beats his drums around his neighbourhood in Amman early in the morning to wake people up for their pre-fast meal.

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  1. Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport

    Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport
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    How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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    ‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan
  4. Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?

    Does Arambai Tenggol’s decision to surrender arms reflect a changed reality in Manipur?
  5. A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing

    A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
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