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IN MAY 1950, PAKISTAN’S law minister, Jogendar Nath #Mandal, confidentially told an Indian reporter that most Hindus in the new country’s eastern wing felt they had no place in #Pakistan and were determined to leave. “I have asked them to wait for a few weeks more and (1/16) Image
that I too am prepared to accompany them to India,” he said, the only #Hindu member of Pakistan’s federal cabinet. “It is only a matter of time before the last Hindu reaches #India from East Bengal.” He lamented that “every #Muslim feels that there should be no Hindus (2/16)
left inside Pakistan,” and pointed out that after driving out the Hindus, Pakistan will not be able to live in peace with India.
#Mandal had been appointed to Pakistan’s first cabinet in 1947 by the country’s founder, Muhammad Ali #Jinnah, who, through the appointment, (3/16)
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When #Delhi girl Priyanka Tiwari married in 2019, she shifted to a village called Rajpur in #Uttar Pradesh. Her first impression of the place was not pleasant.⁠
@Priyanka_Rajpur
The lack of a proper management system and functionalities in the village made it difficult to live in.

Improper waste management, damaged drains, and a lack of crematoriums were some of the issues.⁠

Priyanka, a mass communication graduate, felt the urge to bring about changes in the whole area.⁠
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1/ If you wish you could capture the scent of wet earth into a bottle, #Kannauj in #Uttar Pradesh made that possible a long time ago.

Sometime in the past, the perfumers of ancient Kannauj created a scent that would capture the fragrance of earth when first touched by the rains.
2/ Extracted from parched clay and distilled with ancient techniques, it is today known as mitti attar – Earth’s perfume. It is also called itr-e-khaki.
3/ Mitti attar is made even today in Kannauj’s traditional perfumeries, where sinewy craftsmen tend to fires under ageing copper cauldrons or degs. The distillation process, called deg bhapka, is painstakingly slow and long, with no trace of industrial machinery or modernity.
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