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Start the week with a film: A sea of love and heartbreak in ‘Moothon’
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‘The Scattered Court’: Meticulous archival research reconstructs the musical afterlife of the Empire
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A gig worker writes: Why Deepinder Goyal is wrong about the high ‘churn’ rate in the sector
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‘The most beautiful sarae in Hindustan’: First impressions of princess Jahanara’s Begum ki Serai
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A new book studies how West Bengal’s Siliguri became an important corridor on India’s eastern border
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A new book shows how the RSS consolidated its hold over politics in Rajasthan
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Why SC denied bail to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam but awarded it to five other anti-CAA activists
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‘As helpless as a common man’: Why Jammu and Kashmir’s MLAs say they are powerless in the new regime
On December 13, the district administration in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam sent bulld…
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‘Bhupen Khakhar’: The genius of the iconic Sunday painter is reimagined in this Gujarati biography
Dilip Chitre, the acclaimed Indian poet, critic, and translator, had once made a prof…
