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A new book examines the emergence of women activists in colonial Andhra Pradesh
Social reform was not the exclusive preserve of men. With the spread of education and …
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Why parents prefer private schools over government schools – despite similar learning outcomes
B alakrishnan V, a 44-year-old auto driver, has lived in the same locality all his lif…
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UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000, RuPay debit card payments to remain free, says Centre
The Union government on Monday said that banks and system providers cannot charge fees…
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A new irrigation project threatens to displace both cheetahs and humans in Kuno
In April, an Indian-born cheetah, KP-2, walked several hundred kilometres from Kuno Na…
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AI has made it harder to find reliable information
For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract : …
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Start the week with a film: ‘Call My Agent! The Movie’ brings back the charm of the original show
The first piece of good news is that the superb French show Call My Agent! has a film…
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‘Disappeared’: In Bengal, Muslims picked up from homes in midnight raids, sent to detention centres
Parbin Khatun remembers the night of July 29 vividly. Khatun had returned to her home …
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Eating a serving of nuts can help lower risk of hypertension, say researchers
More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with high blood pressure (hypertension). …
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‘She wanted power, like other ruling elites’: Historian Sarah Waheed on Deccan queen Chand Bibi
Seven years ago, historian Sarah Waheed was killing time on a rainy afternoon in Hyder…
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AI in election governance technology should be a global concern
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impa…
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Snow will vanish forever from East Africa’s iconic mountain peaks
East Africa’s shrinking mountain glaciers on three peaks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania…
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‘Shake off the aura’: Novelist Amitabha Bagchi on originality and borrowing in literary writing
As per Umberto Eco, “Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story …
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Size matters: Why India has a stake in the African-led campaign to decolonise world maps
Maps are supposed to tell us what the world looks like – the names, shapes and sizes o…
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‘Don’t Be Shy’ trailer: In YA romcom, Shyamili navigates messy love and friendship
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Why do anti-reservation ideologues love the creamy layer so much?
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. A newsletter on Indian politics. As always…
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How Sweden went from asylum haven to enacting Europe’s strictest migration policies
For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees…
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Behind deaths of Adivasi children in Balaghat: appalling vaccination levels, widespread hunger
In June, one-year-old Sahil caught a fever and developed a rash all over his body. A m…
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Delhi airport files FIR against 63 social media handles for ‘misleading’ posts about waterlogging
The Delhi International Airport Limited said on Wednesday that it has filed a first in…
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Memoir: Writer Ranbir Sidhu charts the shame and violence of spaces where his parents lived and died
They are married on a cold September day in 1963 in London. My father arrived a year o…
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Why an old demand to release Sikh prisoners is gathering political force in Punjab
On August 21, several cities of Punjab woke up to a complete shutdown in support of a …
