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Jewish Footprints and Connections that Shaped Sri Lanka’s History
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Repositioning India as the Capital of Buddhist Tourism: A Blueprint for a Global Destination
Buddhist tourism as an important tool of India’s soft power. The shared Buddhist heritage can help develop cultural ties with Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Mongolia, South Korea, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and several other Buddhist-majority nations through cooperation in archaeology, monk-to-monk dialogues, youth programs, academic exchanges, and cultural festivals
Mohenjo-daro’s ‘Dancing Girl’: The Silence Surrounding Women in Public History
Mohenjo-daro offers South Asia an opportunity to look backwards without dividing the past into national possessions, and to recognise that the region’s cultural memory is older and more interconnected than its modern inheritors.
How a Film by a Boston-Based Immigrant is Dismantling the Model-Minority Concept
Jam Boy represents a much-needed question for the South Asia diaspora, about why it takes a third aggressor for us to see the common struggles that we share, and why it is only in these situations that we remember that our ideas of home are the same.
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A level playing field for para and able-bodied athletes, encouraging support from the government, timely hand-holding by private players, mushrooming of exclusive arenas and incentives contributed to the impressive showing by in Tokyo Paralympics for the disabled where it had its best-ever showing of 19 medals, including five golds, The Indian Express said in a despatch
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Bollywood veteran Naseeruddin Shah condemns Indian Muslims celebrating Taliban's return; says Hindustani Islam is different
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Bangladeshi woman scientist Firdausi Qadri receives Ramon Magsaysay Award
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India's Ladakh gets world's highest-altitude movie theatre
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Sikh holy scriptures arrive from Kabul, received by Indian minister
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Uncertainty clouds New Zealand’s upcoming Pakistan cricket tour amid Afghan developments
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Taj Mahal to reopen for night viewing after 517 days
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Buddhist sites in Afghanistan not at risk, says Taliban
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‘Don't cry, India is proud of you,’PM Modi consoles women’s hockey team after medal loss
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Virtually extinct in rest of South Asia, world’s rarest heron on the brink in Bhutan
The 2021 survey of the critically endangered white-bellied heron in Bhutan indicates numbers have fallen compared with 2020
Husband's alleged porn film racket: No media trial please, respect my privacy, pleads Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, whose husband Raj Kundra was arrested last week for alleged production of pornographic films in a case that became titillating news fodder for television and social media, broke her silence on Monday as she pleaded against a "media trial" and asked them "to respect our privacy for my children's sake"
