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Help fund the most diverse Lok Sabha election coverage in 2024
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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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Herding in the aisles: The follow-the-leader approach that makes deplaning a nuisance
The herd mentality may have ensured sustenance and safety once upon a time but now it often blinds us to the right choice.
Rohan Banerjee
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How the ‘corruption’ narrative prevents meaningful dialogue on reforming political funding in India
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. India today is no better than it was a decade ago when Anna Hazare protested and a Lokpal was demanded.
Pranab Bardhan
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A new book covers overburdened public hospitals, expensive private hospitals, and healthcare ethics
An excerpt from ‘Sick Business: The Truth Behind Healthcare in India’, by Sumanth Raman.
Sumanth Raman
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Congress to legally challenge unopposed win of BJP Surat candidate after Lok Sabha polls
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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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Defamation suit filed against Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi in connection with MLA poaching allegations
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Ballot boxes, inking fingers: An 85-year-old remembers India’s first General Election
In that election, India became the world’s largest democracy, though my 13-year-old self was blissfully ignorant that I was witnessing a historical event.
Suhas Phadke
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In Mathura, Muslims say they were denied their vote. No complaints in Hindu areas
The parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh recorded its lowest turnout in two decades.
Ayush Tiwari
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As more youngsters take to vaping, they risk lung and brain damage and even cancer
Increasingly, teenagers and children are experimenting with vaping ‘out of curiosity’ and from being drawn by ads and the variety of flavours.
Amira Guirguis, The Conversation
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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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