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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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Fewer flamingos flock to East African lakes – a warning sign that all is not well below the surface
The rising water levels of these salty and highly-alkaline ‘soda lakes’ is decimating the cyanobacteria that lesser flamingos have evolved to eat.
Aidan Byrne, The Conversation
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Lok Sabha 2024: Parties court queer voters but promises ring hollow
The BJP and the Congress both stopped short of recognising marriage quality while paying ‘lip service’ to queer rights.
Annie Banerji, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise
An excerpt from ‘Mahmud and Ayaz’, by R Raj Rao.
R Raj Rao
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
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‘The Kerala Story’: Why did Catholics re-release a Hindutva movie days before polling?
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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An online content creator explains in her book why it’s better to learn from peers than to compete
An excerpt from ‘She’ll Never Make It: From Doubt to Dominance’, by Masoom Minawala and Aditi Shah Bhimjyani.
Masoom Minawala & Aditi Shah Bhimjyani
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‘The Kerala Story’: Why did Catholics re-release a Hindutva movie days before polling?
By exploiting the Christian clergy’s support for ‘love jihad’, the BJP made a last ditch effort in Kerala where the party has yet to win a Lok Sabha seat.
Jimmy James
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Business history: How Jaypee Infratech’s stalled construction projects left homebuyers in the lurch
An excerpt from ‘The Dirty Dozen: India’s Twelve Biggest Corporate Defaulters’, by N Sundaresha Subramanian.
N Sundaresha Subramanian
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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
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?