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    Fiction: A boy ends up in a burns ward. His mother and sister have their versions of what happened

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    ‘Famous Last Questions’: Memoir-cum-reportage that finally takes the millennial mess seriously

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    Is population decline good for nature? Japan shows that may not be the case

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    Indian history for children: From 1200 to 1850, a brief history of the North Eastern states

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Watch: Meet fish-seller and musician Srilal Sahani who plays drums, cymbals while riding his bicycle

‘We might look happy to you, but inside we feel the pressure of our debts...’

Scroll Staff
Jun 03, 2021 · 01:42 pm
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Srilal Sahani is a fish-seller by day and an extraordinary musician by evening – he rides hands-off on a bicycle while playing a dhol and cymbals behind him – in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Today being #WorldBicycleDay is a good time to have a look a day in his life. pic.twitter.com/SIlNt4A53D

— People's Archive of Rural India (@PARInetwork) June 3, 2021
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