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In August 1990, India's 7th Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, implemented the Mandal Commission report to reserve seats for the backward classes in government jobs and public universities. In an interview to author Neerja Chowdhury, he said:
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Kate Flannery's memoir about her days working as an American Apparel employee in the early aughts is out now. Read an excerpt.
In this book excerpt, award-winning Ghanaian journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni explores that challenges of investigative reporting in Africa.
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Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality
An excerpt from Rashmi Narzary’s ‘An Unfinished Search’, which lays bare the evils of Partition, coupled with an unending quest for ancestry