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  Why Indians have always been suspicious that their ghee is adulterated 
  Since ancient times, production of fats has been outsourced from homes, breeding an undying suspicion that something is amiss. 
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  Why did Bihar halt Nitish Kumar’s ambitious land survey? 
  The chief minister wanted to address the problem of land disputes ahead of the elections next year, but corruption and confusion on ground spoiled ... 
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  Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs 
  An old friend defending an abusive reference to a Muslim friend is a reminder that virulent words long circulated in homes before finding acceptanc... 
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  This book asks why the Indianness of Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia is questioned 
  ‘Between Nation and Community’ cites primary and secondary sources and oral testimonies to understand what India thinks of the two universities. 
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  Mirza Farhatullah Baig’s Urdu novel ‘Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama’ recreates Delhi’s lost poetic heritage 
  The book has been translated twice into English. 
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  Traversing through time and seasons with Rashid Khan’s rendition of the Gaud Malhar raga 
  It brings back to us everything we know and also what we don’t know we know, as historical beings, about the cultural lineage of the rains in this country. 
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  Eco India: How apple growers of Himachal Pradesh battle the vagaries of climate and disease 
  Latest estimates reveal that more than one and a half lakh farmers in Himachal Pradesh have switched to natural farming over the last year. 
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  ‘The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind’: A landscape of feelings in Avinash Shrestha’s poetry 
  An accomplished young poet in English, translator Rohan Chhetri gives lyrical shape to Shrestha’s Nepali poems. 
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  Start the week with a film: In ‘Wolfs’, a match made in movie heaven 
  Jon Watts’s buddy comedy stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt. 
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