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Ruckus in Lok Sabha as Opposition alleges BJP member glorified Sati practice

Ruckus in Lok Sabha as Opposition alleges BJP member glorified 'Sati' practice

7 Feb 2023 5:45 PM IST
Lok Sabha was adjourned briefly on Tuesday due to protests by opposition members who alleged that BJP member C P Joshi had glorified 'Sati' in his...
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Musicians of Mayhem
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Author: Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

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Price: 250

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Price: 495

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Price: 1995

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Author: Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

I was shifted to the death-row cell, a place where they kept convicts who had been sentenced to...

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Author: Shakti Sinha

Publisher: Pentagon Press LLP

Price: 795

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Author: Anabel Loyd

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Price: 599

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

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Author: Kavita Krishnan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 299

To call Kavita Krishnan’s Fearless Freedom radical would be regressive given her brutal account of...

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Satire served with Lakhnavi wit

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Director: Shoojit Sircar

Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Vijay Raaz, Brijendra Kala, Srishti Shrivastava, Farrukh Jafar

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Star Cast: John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishen

In various interviews, the Batla House team has declared that their film is an attempt to seek...

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In a film that runs on and on, almost as fast as its agile leading man, for nearly two and a half...

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"22 Yards" | More personal than cricket

Director: Mitali Ghoshal

Star Cast: Barun Sobti, Amartya Ray, Chaiti Ghoshal, Rajit Kapoor, Panchi Bora, Geetika Tyagi, Rajeev Sharma

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