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Catch up on these recent Scroll stories that celebrate the power of friendship:

When Pakistani peace activist Karamat Ali (1945-2024) took an Indian journalist’s ashes ‘home’

Mandira Nayar pays tribute to the person who returned her grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the place he was born.

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The Karnad-Benegal-Dubey trinity that transformed theatre and cinema

‘In the 1970s, Girish Karnad and a set of youngish writers, actors, and artists drank, quarrelled, and created a new style in cinema and on stage.’

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How the friendship between two women changed the way classical music is taught and staged in Delhi

Now little remembered, Nirmala Joshi and Sumitra Charat Ram built three of the institutions for classical arts in Delhi’s culture hub, Mandi House.

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Finding Maya: In the story of a friend’s death, a love story about family

She may have suffered from a fatal condition that was in the end ordinary and common but her going was anything but ordinary.

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