By Joanna Slater The Washington Post
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Her Husband Was Hacked To Death. "What Did You Do," She Asked Her Father
Pranay, 23, was a Dalit, a term used to describe those formerly known as "untouchables." Amrutha, 21, belongs to an upper caste. Her rich and powerful family viewed the couple's union as an unacceptable humiliation. Her father, T. Maruthi Rao, was so enraged that he hired killers to murder his son-in-law, court documents say.
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General Election 2019: Just Married When Her Husband Drank Pesticide. She's Running For MP
When Vaishali Yede was newly married, her husband walked into these fields one October afternoon and drank pesticide. The crop was poor, and he had debts he could not repay. He became one of tens of thousands of farmers to die by suicide in India over the past decade, a grim trend that shows no signs of abating.
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"Family Locked Her Out": Foreign Media On Woman Who Entered Sabarimala
A mother of two from a conservative family in southern India, Kanakadurga was told over and over again by her relatives how a good wife should behave.
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"Satan's Last Stronghold...?" US Man Wrote Before Death On Andaman Island
The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.
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What US Missionary Wrote Before Andaman Tribe Killed Him: Foreign Media
An American missionary trying to meet and convert one of the most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the world offered them fish and other small gifts before the tribesmen killed him and buried his body on the beach, journals and emails show.
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Allegations Left Me Stunned, Flipkart's Binny Bansal Told Staff In Email
The chief executive of Walmart's Flipkart Group, Binny Bansal, is stepping down amid an investigation into "serious personal misconduct," the retailer announced Tuesday.
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Her Husband Was Hacked To Death. "What Did You Do," She Asked Her Father
Pranay, 23, was a Dalit, a term used to describe those formerly known as "untouchables." Amrutha, 21, belongs to an upper caste. Her rich and powerful family viewed the couple's union as an unacceptable humiliation. Her father, T. Maruthi Rao, was so enraged that he hired killers to murder his son-in-law, court documents say.
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General Election 2019: Just Married When Her Husband Drank Pesticide. She's Running For MP
When Vaishali Yede was newly married, her husband walked into these fields one October afternoon and drank pesticide. The crop was poor, and he had debts he could not repay. He became one of tens of thousands of farmers to die by suicide in India over the past decade, a grim trend that shows no signs of abating.
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"Family Locked Her Out": Foreign Media On Woman Who Entered Sabarimala
A mother of two from a conservative family in southern India, Kanakadurga was told over and over again by her relatives how a good wife should behave.
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"Satan's Last Stronghold...?" US Man Wrote Before Death On Andaman Island
The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.
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What US Missionary Wrote Before Andaman Tribe Killed Him: Foreign Media
An American missionary trying to meet and convert one of the most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the world offered them fish and other small gifts before the tribesmen killed him and buried his body on the beach, journals and emails show.
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Allegations Left Me Stunned, Flipkart's Binny Bansal Told Staff In Email
The chief executive of Walmart's Flipkart Group, Binny Bansal, is stepping down amid an investigation into "serious personal misconduct," the retailer announced Tuesday.
