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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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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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Cricket, class and baila: The many layers of Sri Lanka’s celebrated Royal Thomian sports encounter
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Finding freedom, life lessons: How students remember a teacher
Samarveer Singh, an ad-hoc professor at Delhi University’s Hindu College died by suicide a year ago.
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Faltering economy, poorer citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
The declining quality of life in India should prompt soul-searching and rectifying regional cooperation rather than brow beating smaller neighbours.
Kanak Mani Dixit
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A new book shows how political parties are using social media influencers to amplify their messages
An excerpt from ‘The Deception Industry: The Art, Craft and Science of Hacking the Electorate’, by Herjinder.
Herjinder
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Faltering economy, poorer citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
Danny DeVito’s black comedy stars Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas.
Scroll Staff
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Maharashtra Lok Sabha 2024: Which political alliance will gain from the Maratha agitation?
With six parties in the fray, the BJP-led ruling alliance faces a tightrope walk in the region where the Maratha community is firm on its reservation demand.
Smitha Nair
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Protruding eyes, flat faces, short legs: Selective breeding has serious consequences for animals
The human desire to seek novelty in another sentient being is harming their health and their natural abilities, welfare and longevity.
Jacqueline Boyd, The Conversation
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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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