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AP was "Pappu" to his family, and “Dada”—elder brother—to a generation of young Rajput boys. But AP wasn’t Rajput. Or, at least, Rajputs didn’t think of him as their own—until he became a gangster.
@joyinderpura
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Australia has a reputation for venomous snakes, we’ve all seen the memes. But all of Australia has the same population as Delhi.
@kamakshi138 peels the layers of India’s crippling snakebite problem.
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When the KRS dam was sanctioned, even the grand American project Tennessee Valley Authority was two decades away. So, what possessed a princely state and its cadre of Indian engineers to undertake it?
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For years, Indians have been obsessed over the question of when, where and if Subhas Chandra Bose died. But the answers have always been waiting for those who wanted to know, in Taiwan.
By @sowmiyashok
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In Bettiah, the hunger for a large piece of land and an obsession with bloodline spilled over across eras, courts and generations.
@rumbotupalli presents a Game of Thrones from Bihar.
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This is a mosaic of lived experiences that isn't quite captured in 280 characters, movement manifestos––or legalese.
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What do Urmila, Leela, Gourav, Kevin and Revathi have in common? Besides being the protagonists of @WhyGaze's essay, actually, very little. That's the point.
"Coupling" investigates the way some LGBTQ+ Indians have understood, conceived, and lived queer marriages.
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'For decades, he cherished one dream: to see his sport succeed in India, and for the country to have its own full-fledged professional league.'
@KaranMadhok1 on Indian basketball and its greatest coach India may have never heard of.
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1930. The Kapila family had just moved from Punjab to Nairobi.
In both India & Kenya, there were stirrings against the colonial oppressor. But freedom would arrive in different ways.
@anuradhakumar01 looks at tumultuous times through AR Kapila's eyes.
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“Ab upar jaake lena case waapis.” Now go up to heaven and take the case back. These were the last words allegedly spoken by the man who stabbed Jitender Meghwal to death.
@KapilKajal1 reconstructs a caste crime.
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In the Sundarbans, a mother and daughter’s lives are circumscribed by the weather, poverty and social control.
@MRitwika tells their story:
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Jubilee, Vikram Motwane’s upcoming series, is set in the world of 1940s and 1950s Hindi cinema.
He knows a thing or two about it. His granddad once made a film ft. Kishore Kumar that had its muhurat shot at the legendary Bombay Talkies.
@neerjadeodhar
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When the meme is extremely poisonous, as it often is, there may be no one to point a finger at. That anonymity is the boon and curse of the loose collective known as the Tamil Meme Nation. Boundaries blurring is, in a sense, the theme of @gradwolf's essay: fiftytwo.in/story/masters/
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Things men and women who are not married or related to each other can be: tennis friend, office friend, investment friend.
What about a close friend?
The people in @prachip79’s life confront this difficult question.
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On 12 November last year, @zuhaib_pirzada was standing on Sujawal Bridge near Thatta, at the point where the Indus flows into its delta.
Poetry and prose come together in his unusual report on the aftermath of the devastating floods in Sindh: fiftytwo.in/story/rivers/
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The efforts of Argentinian grandmothers transformed forensic science and how it identifies the dead.
In India, however, the official approach is still catching up. At no time is this more evident than during natural disasters, writes @deepa_padma.
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Half-eaten dinners in Delhi, dashes to D.C., and many houses divided. This is the story of India’s failed 1966 devaluation, by @PrakharMisra.
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Arunachal Pradesh has been in religious churn for decades now. During this time, the indigenous Donyi Polo faith has strengthened among its followers.
But that might have more to do with Hinduism, and Hindutva, than you think.
@AnganaCk
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Aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India, as narrated by @sunaina_kumar:
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Andrew Silva, a genial 67-year-old Sri Lankan driver, has a bulging brown notebook full of names—mothers who gave up their children for adoption.
In the adoptee community, he is a resourceful searcher. It’s not the easiest volunteer mission in the world.
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