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How the refrigerator keeps generational attitudes towards food intact

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India’s reactionary modernism

The Fall of Man
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When our favourite artists are cast as predators, what do we do with their art? Shreevatsa Nevatia on the dilemma

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Elizabeth Flock tracks the moods and messiness of modern marriages in Mumbai

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The ‘deeply ironic humanism’ of America’s last great novelist

Mumbai Notebook
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The love of theatre, season of mangoes and buzz of Ramzan

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Look who’s raging against cultural appropriation

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