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‘Not the Rama we’re familiar with’: The different Ramayanas across South-East Asia

Scholars believe the Ramayana is a template for tales across the continent. What roles did the Ramayana’s retellings play in the region?

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How SC is using ‘right to speedy trial’ to award bail in money laundering cases

The court has granted bail in several high-profile money laundering cases since the accused had spent an ‘unreasonable’ period in prison without trial.

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Kenyan court suspends Adani Group power line agreement

The Law Society of Kenya challenged the deal saying that the arrangement is ‘tainted with secrecy’ and a ‘constitutional sham’.

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Booker Prize review: In ‘Held’, the moments of transcendence that bind us to one another

Author Anne Michaels challenges the traditional view of history as a series of grand events, instead suggesting that our inner lives are just as monumental.

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VS Naipaul, Nissim Ezekiel and a forgotten literary debate on post-independence Indian identity

The debate around Naipaul’s book ‘An Area of Darkness’ was an important moment in post-colonial thought and the idea of ‘being Indian’.

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What Mahatma Gandhi taught the Indian business community in Sri Lanka

During a three-week visit in 1927, the Mahatma urged Parsis, Nattukotai Chettiars and Reddiars, among other Indians in Ceylon, to be just and charitable.

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New Zealand Tour of India: Kiwis win Pune Test to hand hosts first home series loss in 12 years

Mitchell Santner took six wickets in the second innings as India lost the match by 113 runs.

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