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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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There are 12 Schedules in the Constitution of India. One of the first mentions of Schedules was made in the Government of India Act, 1935 where it included 10 Schedules. Later, when the Indian Constitution was adopted in 1949, it consisted of 8 Schedules. Today, with the amendments in the Indian Constitution, there are a total of…
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January 18, 2025, 11:05 PM IST Gautam Bhatia in Voices, India, TOIFacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail Gautam Bhatia Gautam Bhatia is a Delhi-based lawyer. Jan 26, 2025 is the 75th birthday of the Indian Constitution. When you consider the fact that the average lifespan of a constitution is 19 years, the Indian Constitution has already survived four times longer than the global average.…
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Dear friend,The Palestinian people of Gaza — who have endured and resisted a 470-day campaign for their extermination, enabled by the bombs and bullets of Israel’s Western backers — have won six weeks’ respite. The hostage swap and ceasefire deal agreed between Hamas and Israel will exchange 33 Israelis held by Hamas for hundreds of…
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By Maria Popova Since long before researchers began to illuminate the astonishing science of what trees feel and how they communicate, the human imagination has communed with the arboreal world and found in it a boundless universe of kinship. A seventeenth-century gardener wrote of how trees “speak to the mind, and tell us many things, and teach…
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