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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
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This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
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
Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and chief of army staff Asim Munir
Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment expands the military and army chief’s authority, allowing government and Parliament sweeping control over the judiciary
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