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image captionKhurshedben Naoroji (centre) at a function in Athens in 1924
In most countries, the life of an elite, sophisticated woman renouncing her career as a classical soprano to preach nonviolence to bandits and kidnappers would merit significant study and attention. Yet in India, the woman in question, Khurshedben Naoroji, is largely unknown. Historian Dinyar Patel recounts her forgotten story.
The writer Ramachandra Guha once described the world of Indian biography as a bare cupboard . Curiously, most scholars of India eschew writing life stories. A new book, with contributions from many of Guha s students and colleagues, helps to populate these empty shelves with some remarkable characters.
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Singer lemon takes the market by storm
An acre of plantation can fetch rupees one million every year after three years
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN:
The production of seedless lemons, encouraged by an unsatiated market in neighboring Afghanistan, has taken wings in district Dera Ismail (DI) Khan. Owing to the citrus fruit’s growing popularity, it has also started being cultivated in parts of Punjab, where it’s said to be generating considerable profits for growers.
However, the citrus variety first appeared in the country some 150 years ago, in a small village called Singer located a few kilometres from DI Khan district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The first tree is said to have been planted here by a local Qurishi clan, that served in the British Army. “The head of the family was posted I Bengal, where he encountered these seedless lemons and brought home several plants, which soon spanned much of district DI Khan, irrigated by water from the Indus River,” tol
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