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2018 saw me travel to two places in India that have been high repute to being insurgent – Kashmir and…
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“Why go to the bakery? I am making tikkis. Have breakfast with us.” Said Yawar’s mother in her warmest tone.…
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It was 8:00 in the evening and we had been riding through the city for quite some time now, in…
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Calcutta– as the old heads would remember it, was born 327 years ago, when Job Charnock set sail on the…
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