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  • Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
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    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  • ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
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    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
  • World Bank cancels funding for 4 waste-to-energy plants in Gujarat after residents object
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    World Bank cancels funding for 4 waste-to-energy plants in Gujarat after residents object
  • Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
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    Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
  • Congress questions BJP about Trump’s USAID funds ‘for friend Modi’ claim
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    Congress questions BJP about Trump’s USAID funds ‘for friend Modi’ claim
  • Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
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    Germany’s firewall against the far right has crumbled – the consequences are immeasurable
  • The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
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    The psychology of making a change to your life – and sticking with it
  • ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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    ‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him
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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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  1. Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans

    Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
  2. ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism

    ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’: A thorough study of how Hindu identity was shaped by colonialism
  3. From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers

    From Pune to Delhi, riverfront projects are all the rage. But evidence shows they harm rivers
  4. ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh

    ‘The way a sari is worn is a living dictionary of India’s stories’: Cultural historian Malvika Singh
  5. World Bank cancels funding for 4 waste-to-energy plants in Gujarat after residents object

    World Bank cancels funding for 4 waste-to-energy plants in Gujarat after residents object
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