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    After 12 years of Modi, I’m not sure if my decades-long friendships can survive politics

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    ‘Super Subbu’ trailer: Telugu series explores sex education lessons in a village

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    ‘Tragically funny’: Typos in Seychelles citation for Modi spark questions about authenticity, AI use

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    How a son’s discovery of his father’s army dispatches from World War Two became a book

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    Canada rejected 71% football world cup visitor visa applications by Indians: Report

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    Ayodhya: UP Congress chief Ajay Rai allegedly placed under house arrest ahead of Ram temple visit

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    ‘Dogs are essential to my life’: Indologist Wendy Doniger writes about her pets in her memoir

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    Ramachandra Guha: How the Indian frontier service worked selflessly to build the new nation

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The 15.81 carat diamond in pink and purple hues is named after the cherry blossom in Japan.

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