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Review | Debashis Paul’s ‘I Have Autism and I Like to Play Good Bad Tennis — Vignettes and Insights from My Son’s Life’

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Through the story of his son, author Debashis Paul hopes to change the restrictive and defeatist attitudes associated with autism

Nalini Ramachandran

Interview | Smriti Ravindra on her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’

Dignity denied as more than 3,000 schools in South Africa still use pit toilets

Wild gaur attacks: Saseendran sees bid to turn public anger against govt.

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Mob lynching an unpardonable crime, says Muslim Jamat

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Fisheries Minister Saji Cherian greeting people as he arrives to attend the first Theera Sadassu in Kozhikode district at Government Higher Secondary School, Beypore.

Theera Sadassu seeks solutions for issues of coastal people

New government should not go back on regularisation of jobs, say pourakarmikas

OCI status of actor Chetan Kumar cancelled weeks after arrest over Hindutva tweet

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A protest march taken out to the Chempanoda village office on Thursday by farmers against the newly released aerial survey report on buffer zone.

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