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The Char Dham highway project, hailed by the government as a development milestone, is fuelling disasters in Uttarakhand. Help fund Scroll reporters travel to the ground and uncover its full impact.

When a Taliban minister invokes Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’: An Afghan imagines the poet’s quiet response

More than a century on, the Nobel Laureate’s story has transcended fiction, showing a mirror to humanity as those who silence art speak in his name.

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How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centralising vision and control.

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The mysterious death of a young National Film Award-winning cinematographer

Saravanamarathu Soundarapandian’s career was just beginning to take off. And then, he disappeared.

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New party to ‘protect kabootarkhanas’ formed by Jain leaders ahead of Mumbai civic polls

The announcement was made during a prayer meeting for the pigeons that they claimed had died since the Mumbai civic body started shutting down feeding spots.

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The wandering al-Khidr or English mispronunciation? Stories behind the name of a Kolkata locality

The three original tales of Kidderpore, a colonial port which is now a dockyard, tell one story about communities make sense of their place in the world.

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Lessons from Neverland: A writer reflects on the eternal wisdom of children’s books

‘Would it, after all, be such a bad thing to live in a society pivoted upon honesty, decency and empathy?’

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Start the week with the film: Brotherhood and betrayal in ‘Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana’

Kannada cinema’s Shetty trinity – Rishab, Raj and Rakshit – come together for the brooding crime drama.

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