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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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

  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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Watch: In Aligarh relatives of Covid-19 patients complain there is no oxygen but authorities deny it

Residents of the Uttar Pradesh city have alleged that only the rich and influential are able to procure oxygen in the black market.

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May 07, 2021 · 12:00 pm
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Angry relatives of Covid patients allege shortfall of #Oxygen in the city & that people with links or the influential are stocking up cylinders, they also allege black marketing of oxygen. Watch their desperation & misery pic.twitter.com/2a9tpWK9KB

— Noman (@nomansiddiqui) May 6, 2021

"My father is admitted & I am not able to find oxygen, I am a poor man, my father will die...." another man alleges he has been running pillar to post to find oxygen in Aligarh pic.twitter.com/PsUq89UK3Y

— Noman (@nomansiddiqui) May 6, 2021
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