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    In just ten months, two election commissioners objected 14 times to decisions related to SIRs. At Scroll, we have covered extensively, how SIR has changed election outcomes, people's lives and has far wider impact than just names being deleted from voters' rolls. A thread:
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    To bite into a guava in Bengal now is to taste a plural history. The tang is the taste of Firingi ingenuity. And the sheer, overwhelming everydayness of the fruit is the taste of Bengal’s absorptive power to digest the foreign and make it its own.
    The guava’s whisper: Recovering stories for a post-Western world
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    Replug | Indian monk Dharmakṣema fostered a deeper understanding of Buddhism in China. He is remembered today for his translations, especially of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which had a great impact on the development of Chinese Buddhist thought. scroll.in/magazine/10754… Ajay
    How an Indian monk contributed to the understanding of Buddhism in China
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    In modern democracies especially, a person starving in protest presents a profound dilemma. Authorities must either accede to the demand, force-feed the protester (raising human rights concerns), or risk letting them die and facing public outrage.
    A new book reflects on why a hunger strike is the most culturally resonant political protest
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    Harry de Windt would continue his globetrotting life, including a trek from New York to Paris by land, crossing the Bering Strait into Russia and travelling onwards to Europe. He documented these journeys in detail. scroll.in/magazine/10903… Ajay Kamalakaran writes
    What an intrepid English traveller saw in Balochistan in the late 19th century
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