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It took several wars and conflicts to establish tea as India’s most widely available drink

A community doesn’t just help you settle into a new place. It also helps you find yourself

Women’s turnout in the upcoming elections is expected to meet — or even exceed — that of men, but they also make up a large chunk of missing voters

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The rise and fall of the uncrowned czar of the travel industry

The Christchurch attack underlines the need to confront violent white nationalism head-on

The search for ‘reliability’ among NGOs may take you further away from the voices of those they are meant to represent

Education is a getaway. It helps you learn, make friends, devise strategies to resist — and dream of change

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... of the kind that exudes a warm glow and hides the mediocrity of desi homes

Wars have defined Lebanon in the eyes of the world. A close look, however, reveals a side that has blossomed amid conflicts

President Duterte wants the Philippines to shake off its colonial name and adopt one that reflects its indigenous past

A one-child policy will never work in India. That shows the strength of our system

Krishna Sobti played with languages, genre and gender. A poet who turned to fiction, she wrote under the masculine name Hashmat, and watched her prose transform

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While science is still playing catch-up with the far-reaching effects of climate change, a visit to the Arctic Circle drives home lessons in cosmopolitanism and pragmatism

Why do Indians love to party at night?

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The year women broke the code of silence around harassment also witnessed a slew of legislation centred around them, each Bill more problematic than the other

While Brexit and the Mexican wall are the West’s shrill cries for national sovereignty, it seeks to hollow out the same in Africa through “voluntary colonisation”

If a picture speaks a thousand words — or connects people — what do we make of the ones that talk of atrocities and suffering?

If you want to know what a person is like, look at what he’s throwing away

Asia Bibi’s case illustrates how blasphemy laws privilege an article of faith over human life

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