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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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Cricket, class and baila: The many layers of Sri Lanka’s celebrated Royal Thomian sports encounter
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‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
An 18-year-old stoker was presumed dead after he fell off a navy destroyer. By a miracle he survived, swam in cold waters to the shore and found his way back.
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
She described her role as the courtesan Bibbojaan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Netflix series ‘Heeramandi’ as a dream come true.
Udita Jhunjhunwala
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
The High Court implicated the state government for involvement in the recruitment scam that has dominated the state’s politics over the last few years.
Vineet Bhalla
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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‘Circles of Freedom’ tells a tight-paced story of Asaf Ali and friends during the national movement
The cast of TCA Raghavan’s book comprises not only an elite English-speaking crowd within the Congress, but also the context.
Nandan S Kaushik
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
Shyam Benegal’s ‘Manthan’, about the Amul dairy co-operative movement, has undergone a new restoration by Film Heritage Foundation.
Scroll Staff
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Why legal experts are sceptical about the BJP’s promise to bring back a national litigation policy
The party’s own ministers have withdrawn assurances made to Parliament about putting in place such a policy, on the grounds that it was not required.
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes