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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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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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Dangerous waters: Indian fishers in search of better catch are venturing into deep sea – and peril
Climate change and overfishing have destroyed nearshore fisheries. But crossing other maritime boundaries comes with physical harm, seizure and detention.
Imran Muzaffar & Aliya Bashir
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What is romantasy? And why is it the latest bestselling book trend?
The genre is wedded to the structure of the romance novel, often including the romantic happy ending, but it included fantastical elements and/or settings.
Jodi McAlister, The Conversation & Kate Cuthbert, The Conversation
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
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Blackness and identity: In Cuba, an Afro hair care initiative goes to the roots and beyond
Community hair salon Rizo Libre aims to enable Black people to have a conversation about racism, identity and self-esteem – through their hair.
Rachel Pereda, The Human Journalism Network
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
The march down the path of electoral autocracy by the region’s most powerful and populous country will lead to monumental desolation.
Kanak Mani Dixit
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‘Nobody Lights a Candle’ illuminates the dark realities of our unequal society
Though the protagonist’s plight sends shivers down the spine, one never gets to know who she truly is.
Veeksha Vagmita
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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