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From the archives

Anant Ambani, youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, oversees Vantara – an amalgam of the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust and Greens Zoological, Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. As Anant’s ambitions to house animals at Jamnagar have expanded, India’s laws and regulations on wildlife have been weakened.

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An old black and white photograph of two men in white shirts and ties crouching on the ground near a tyre. The man on the right is holding a small container while the other on the left appears to be handling an object. The setting is a semi-enclosed space, with a white wall in the background and a leafy vine partially obscuring the left side of the frame.

Ranil Wickremesinghe in the hot seat over Batalanda torture site

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The Gaza apocalypse and India’s guilt

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Saffron Siege – The RSS at 100: a podcast with Harsh Mander

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