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    A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    ‘April May 99’ review: An irresistibly charming summer vacation
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    ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
  • The hollow hype over India as the ‘AI use case capital of the world’
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    The hollow hype over India as the ‘AI use case capital of the world’

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    A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
  • Startup stories: How two young men tried to make drinking tea cool with an investment of Rs 3 lakh
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    Startup stories: How two young men tried to make drinking tea cool with an investment of Rs 3 lakh
  • From the memoir: Radiologist Sneh Bhargava writes about being the only woman director of AIIMS
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    From the memoir: Radiologist Sneh Bhargava writes about being the only woman director of AIIMS
  • What we know so far about the new Covid variant NB.1.8.1.
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    What we know so far about the new Covid variant NB.1.8.1.
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    NGOs that receive foreign funding cannot publish news content, says home ministry
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‘Stopped eating so I could afford it’: Owner of largest Gaza bookshop after Israeli airstrike on it

‘I would restrict myself, my children and my siblings so I could afford the store,’ said Shaban Aslim.

Scroll Staff
May 20, 2021 · 07:35 pm
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“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.”

The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. pic.twitter.com/GvG2jkBIzX

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 19, 2021
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