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  • 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

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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents

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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

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    Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it

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    ‘Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan’ trailer: Shanaya Kapoor, Vikrant Massey in film based on Ruskin Bond story

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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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