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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.
Devendra Pratap Singh Shekhawat
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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.
Kamakshi Ayyar peels the layers of India’s crippling snakebite problem.
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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 Sowmiya Ashok
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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.
Ramya Boddupalli presents a Game of Thrones from Bihar.
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« When you go looking for the rivers Hakra & Puran in Sindh, you find floods, danger, poets & protestors »
Essential, lyrical piece by Zuhaib Ahmed Pirzada in Fifty Two on the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan. #ClimateJustice #LossandDamage
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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.'
Karan Madhok 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.
anuradha kumar 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.
Kapil Kajal 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.
Ritwika Mitra tells their story:
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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 Aditya Shrikrishna's essay: fiftytwo.in/story/masters/