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Photo shows a rubber dinghy moving through high floodwater. A man in Sri Lanka Army uniform is in front, along with a volunteer in civilian clothes. There are two more male civilian volunteers in the back. The dinghy has a woman, child and man being rescued from floods. All three wear orange lifejackets. This is in Wellampitiya, Sri Lanka
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake repeats his predecessors’ mistakes in his response to flooding and landslides, which have caused hundreds of deaths
Arundhati Roy rests her chin on her hand and looks directly at the camera. She is seated indoors in front of shelves filled with multiple copies of 'The God of Small Things', whose covers are blurred in the background.
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Supriya Nair
‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’, Arundhati Roy’s memoir of love, loyalty and the larger-than-life Mrs Roy, puts into perspective a whole career of writing about the problem of belonging
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The problem with Hindi film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, US ends protections for Myanmar refugees, airstrikes in Afghanistan and more
Posters for ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ in Mumbai in 2014.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’s charms lent a deceptive lustre to its ultra-conservatism, which helped pave the way for the brazen misogyny and Hindu nationalism in Hindi cinema three decades later
Mohandas Gandhi sits on a chair during a visit to a bhangi colony. He is surrounded by army officers in uniform. Jawaharlal Nehru is visible on the right, and Vallabhai Patel is visible in the middle.
Caste-based dialects – or castelects – and the social hierarchy of languages across Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Tulu
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Pakistan's 27th amendment, Sheikh Hasina's death sentence, the Global Shining Light Award and more
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