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A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds

An Oxford museum’s collection of objects taken from the Naga people includes human remains. What to do with them now is not a simple matter.

© Mary Turner for The New York Times

Members of a Naga delegation visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, in June.
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For One Man, It Didn’t Take Much to Make an Embassy in India

For almost eight years, the police said, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.

© Uttar Pradesh Police Special Task Force, via Associated Press

A photograph released by the police in Uttar Pradesh, India, of a building on the outskirts of New Delhi. It may bear all the hallmarks of an embassy, but don’t be fooled. It’s a fake.
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The Air India Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’

His son and daughter-in-law brought love to his home and represented the family’s hope for a better life.

Anil Ambalal Patel kissing a photo of his son, Harshit, and his daughter-in-law, Pooja, on the morning of their funeral.
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