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"Choking Death Trap": Historian William Dalrymple As Delhi's AQI Nears 500
Amid the severe air pollution crisis in Delhi, Scottish historian William Dalrymple highlighted the severity of the situation, saying that he has never seen anything like this in 40 years of living in the national capital.
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William Dalrymple On Why It Is A "Surprise That India Dominated Asia For 1,000 Years"
Archeology and solid scholarship show that India lay at the heart of ancient world, argued historian William Dalrymple, underscoring that the myth of the Silk road has made India seem more peripheral than it actually was.
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Shweta Bachchan And Mom Jaya Are Somewhere Exotic - Location In William Dalrymple's Comment
"Mama, at the window," wrote Shweta Bachchan
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Salman Rushdie Attacked: What Authors Wrote On Twitter
Salman Rushdie, the British author, was today attacked on stage during an event in New York. The author's controversial writings made him the target of a fatwa that forced him to move to the US.
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8th Edition Of Bangalore Literature Festival: Know Key Highlights Of The Literary Fest
Literature Festival In Bangalore: Authors and speakers including Devdutt Patnaik, Pankaj Kapur, Rohini Nilekani, William Dalrymple, Ramachandra Guha, Lisa Ray, Mark Tully, Vikram Sampath are among the participating speakers.
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Koh-i-Noor, With History As Bloody As Game Of Thrones, Inspires New Book
Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them all, with a litany of horrors that rivals "Game of Thrones".
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Kohinoor's London Debut: The Diamond Appeared Dull, Crowds Grumbled
Excerpt from Kohinoor: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
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'Lethal' Aircraft, Warned Pilots. Then, A Delhi Emergency Landing.
The type of plane that needed an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday night was described by pilots months ago as "lethal snag prone" aircraft of Air India. NDTV has accessed a letter sent in March by a pilots' association warning aviation regulator DGCA about the dangers of using elderly versions of the A-320, a model widely used and sold across ...
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'May Day, May Day,' Said Air India Pilots on Touchdown: William Dalrymple
Author William Dalrymple was on the Air India flight that made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport on Monday night and has asked why a faulty aircraft took off at all.
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Jaipur Literature Festival Begins With a Soulful Hymn
Setting the tone for the Jaipur Literature festival, Sufi gospel singer Sonam Kalra's voice, singing the famous hymn 'Abide with Me', welcomed delegates to what has become one of the biggest literary events in the world.
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Graves of empire tell of India's troubled past
By the side of a crowded Delhi highway with buses thundering by and hawkers touting their wares lies a small, walled cemetery.
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Sushmita Banerjee was daring, outspoken, says Escape From Taliban director
Expressing shock over the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan, filmmaker Ujjwal Chatterjee on Friday remembered Banerjee as a "daring" and "outspoken" woman.
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Jaipur Lit Fest set to begin today amid controversies
Unfazed by objections from some quarters over the participation of certain authors, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is all set to begin today with event co-director William Dalrymple saying few fringe groups were trying to hog the limelight.
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"Choking Death Trap": Historian William Dalrymple As Delhi's AQI Nears 500
Amid the severe air pollution crisis in Delhi, Scottish historian William Dalrymple highlighted the severity of the situation, saying that he has never seen anything like this in 40 years of living in the national capital.
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William Dalrymple On Why It Is A "Surprise That India Dominated Asia For 1,000 Years"
Archeology and solid scholarship show that India lay at the heart of ancient world, argued historian William Dalrymple, underscoring that the myth of the Silk road has made India seem more peripheral than it actually was.
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Shweta Bachchan And Mom Jaya Are Somewhere Exotic - Location In William Dalrymple's Comment
"Mama, at the window," wrote Shweta Bachchan
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Salman Rushdie Attacked: What Authors Wrote On Twitter
Salman Rushdie, the British author, was today attacked on stage during an event in New York. The author's controversial writings made him the target of a fatwa that forced him to move to the US.
-
8th Edition Of Bangalore Literature Festival: Know Key Highlights Of The Literary Fest
Literature Festival In Bangalore: Authors and speakers including Devdutt Patnaik, Pankaj Kapur, Rohini Nilekani, William Dalrymple, Ramachandra Guha, Lisa Ray, Mark Tully, Vikram Sampath are among the participating speakers.
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Koh-i-Noor, With History As Bloody As Game Of Thrones, Inspires New Book
Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them all, with a litany of horrors that rivals "Game of Thrones".
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Kohinoor's London Debut: The Diamond Appeared Dull, Crowds Grumbled
Excerpt from Kohinoor: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
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'Lethal' Aircraft, Warned Pilots. Then, A Delhi Emergency Landing.
The type of plane that needed an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday night was described by pilots months ago as "lethal snag prone" aircraft of Air India. NDTV has accessed a letter sent in March by a pilots' association warning aviation regulator DGCA about the dangers of using elderly versions of the A-320, a model widely used and sold across ...
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'May Day, May Day,' Said Air India Pilots on Touchdown: William Dalrymple
Author William Dalrymple was on the Air India flight that made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport on Monday night and has asked why a faulty aircraft took off at all.
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Jaipur Literature Festival Begins With a Soulful Hymn
Setting the tone for the Jaipur Literature festival, Sufi gospel singer Sonam Kalra's voice, singing the famous hymn 'Abide with Me', welcomed delegates to what has become one of the biggest literary events in the world.
-
Graves of empire tell of India's troubled past
By the side of a crowded Delhi highway with buses thundering by and hawkers touting their wares lies a small, walled cemetery.
-
Sushmita Banerjee was daring, outspoken, says Escape From Taliban director
Expressing shock over the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan, filmmaker Ujjwal Chatterjee on Friday remembered Banerjee as a "daring" and "outspoken" woman.
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Jaipur Lit Fest set to begin today amid controversies
Unfazed by objections from some quarters over the participation of certain authors, the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is all set to begin today with event co-director William Dalrymple saying few fringe groups were trying to hog the limelight.
