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Breathing life into a dying language
The Andamans, a cluster of islands 700 miles east of the Indian mainland in the Bay of Bengal, are home to three highly endangered languages. One of them, Great Andamanese, has only five speakers....
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Kashmir movie triggers new controversy
Indian filmmaker Ashvin Kumar is used to controversy. His previous documentary, Inshallah Football, about the conflict in Kashmir and its lingering ramifications, was refused a certificate by the...
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India’s newspaper rivals do battle in ad war
In India, there is a jolly and very entertaining newspaper war going on between two of the country’s most established titles. Between them, they enjoy a circulation of more than 5m readers. The Times...
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Why do Pakistani lawyers want to ban the country’s favourite soft drink? (A...
Generations of Pakistanis have grown up reaching out for the sweet and easy pleasures of Shezan soft drinks. Over five decades the company has cemented its reputation as a supplier not just to high...
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Fried rat and palm toddy: a post-election rally snack in Burma.
It was hot and dusty and the motorcycle journey back from Aung San Suu Kyi's campaign rally in the town of Kawmhu had already taken more than an hour. Would you like something to drink, asked my...
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Ousted leader of Maldives says international community has let down democracy
Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives who was forced out in what he says was a coup earlier this year, is trying to drum up support from the international community to pressure the new...
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Khalil Dale – His life was one of love, not hatred.
Khalil 'Ken' Dale was a British aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this year and then subsequently killed by his captors. They attached a note to his body, discovered by police in Quetta on...
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Is there a plan to bring the last Mughal Emperor back to India?
At Mehrauli’s crumbling Summer Palace, a once opulent building established by India’s Moghul rulers on the southern edge of Delhi, lie four grave plots. Three of the plots are occupied by the tombs of...
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Still no justice for murdered journalist Saleem Shahzad
A year has somehow charged past since the abduction and murder of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad, a full 12 months in which no suspect has been identified, no-one charged with his killing and...
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The incredible flavours of Burma (and whether its food could become the next...
The celebrated food writer Naomi Duguid rarely travels with either a translator or a fixed itinerary. Rather, she’d prefer to go where her eyes and taste-buds lead her and plunge into situations,...
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All aboard! Making a killing with India’s genuine “duplicate gold”
The bus had barely reached the outskirts of the city when it pulled to the side of the road and a man clambered aboard. In an instant he had pulled a gold chain from his pocket and looped it around the...
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Unsettling news reaches me from Islamabad – news of the I’d-not-want-to-join-any-club-that-would-have-me nature. It has emerged that a member of the British media has been told he is not allowed to...
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