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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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Sunday book pick: In ‘Such a Long Journey’, how an ordinary heart travels in turbulent times
‘Such a Long Journey’, Rohinton Mistry’s debut novel, was published in 1991.
Sayari Debnath
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
In speech after speech, the prime minister has spread divisive falsehoods, pitting India’s Muslims against other disadvantaged communities.
Tabassum Barnagarwala & Abhik Deb
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As protests against Gaza genocide rock US campuses, officials are falling into trap set by the Right
Conservatives have false framed the demonstrations as being rife with antisemitism, projecting isolated incidents as being representative.
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, The Conversation
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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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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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
An uptick in the sale of land to non-residents has sparked widespread concern about employment, food security and increased stress on natural resources.
Swati Thapa
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Women’s Prize for Fiction: A reader’s guide to the six books on the 2024 shortlist
The winning author will receive a cash prize of £30,000 and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette.
Scroll Staff
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‘Shakchunni’: A supernatural thriller about how the zamindari system crumbled under its own weight
Author Arnab Ray makes the choice of not modernising the story at all, and sets it in 1940s’ Bengal, when the Great Bengal Famine had just hit.
Debasmita Bhowmik
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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: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes