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Constitution, cows, rations: Why Dalits in UP want to vote out the BJP
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With dance, music and humour, a hit play has brought to life the legend of Tansen
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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World beaters: Indian table tennis players mark an unprecedented rise with some big wins
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Bow and arrow or torch? In Maharashtra, confusion over new election symbols may help BJP, allies
After the split in Shiv Sena and NCP, the Election Commission awarded original party symbols to the breakaway factions. Not all voters are aware of the change.
Tabassum Barnagarwala
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
Meet Ambika, one of 10,000 women across rural India trained as a drone pilot to do crop monitoring, spraying pesticides, fertilisers, and seed sowing.
Scroll Staff
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Start the week with a film: Why Farah Khan’s ‘Main Hoon Na’ endures
The Shah Rukh Khan-starrer is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. It has aged remarkably well.
Scroll Staff
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Listening to 41 Modi interviews: Few tough questions, no rebuttals, no fact checks
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Varanasi poll: As 33 nominations are rejected, eight applicants allege that the process was rigged
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What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj
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May global fiction: Six hot-off-the-press books to take you on a world literary tour
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Sunday book pick: In Geetanjali Shree’s ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’, women defy definitions
Originally published in the Hindi as ‘Tirohit’ in 2001, the novel was translated into English by Rahul Soni and published in 2013.
Sayari Debnath
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Ramachandra Guha: How would Vallabhbhai Patel have viewed the BJP’s pernicious misuse of his legacy?
In a tragic irony, a lifelong Congressman has become the symbolic property of the BJP.
Ramachandra Guha
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‘The Saffron Storm’: Saba Naqvi presents a contemporary history of the BJP’s journey to domination
As India chooses its next government, the book re-traces the staggering rise of the BJP from the political margins to centrestage.
Shakir Mir
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
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Eco India, Episode 260: Can technology's societal benefits extend to environmental sustainability?
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Video: How free and fair are Indian elections today?
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Watch: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walks the Cannes red carpet with an injured arm
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Watch: Meet Figaro, the curious cat who loves to ‘help’ her human making pottery