Mementos of monetary change in the subcontinent, some passed down from her mother and some her own. Rupee, paisa, anna, taka, dhela – a veritable hoard amassed by her over the years. For as long as I can remember, this coin collection has lived discreetly inside a blue velvet pouch. A plastic sheet has been spread over the mattress and her elusive coin collection, unseen by me but talked about frequently by my father, has been toppled onto the sheet. I return home from work to find my paternal grandmother, my dadi, hunched over the bed, sifting through a pile of metal. The past has been surfacing frequently and unexpectedly these days. CoWIN breach: ‘No government in a developed country would have survived a data leak of this scale’.Shuttle Zone: How does one figure out style of play and what to look for in an ideal doubles partner.‘Padmavat’ reminds us that a major casualty of the gory Rajput conflicts were Rajput women.Watch: Newsperson in TV studio with umbrella pretends she is being buffeted by Cyclone Biparjay.Indonesia Open Super 1000, R16 blog: Satwik-Chirag, Prannoy, Srikanth win Sindhu, Priyanshu bow out.‘Kathal’ may be fiction but it’s one story the Indian police should make a reality.View from Dawn: The solution to Pakistan’s economic woes lie in trade with India.Why the wrestlers’ testimonies carry legal weight.Fiction: An older Indian man wants to marry a Japanese woman, but she sets an unusual condition.‘Everyone is frightened’: Muslims in Uttarakhand’s Purola recount a campaign to hound them out.Watch: News channel anchors pretend to ride a helicopter in the studio for Cyclone Biparjoy coverage.Transformation of the goddess and clay: Naveen Kishore’s photos capture hues of conflict.
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