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    2. MT Saju
    MT Saju
    About the AuthorMT Saju
    MT Saju is a journalist with more than two decades of experience with leading newspapers. He presently lives in Thiruvananthapuram but travels to various parts of the country to write on subjects close to his heart, mostly about suffering and neglect.
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      When dignity rolls over the banana leaves of faith left by devotees after eating food

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      A journey spanning 400 million years with ammonites in Perambalur

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      A ‘tractor’ of worries and exploitation that farmers don’t want to ride

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      50 years on, a man looks back at the hundreds of trees he planted for the one that was felled

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      The temple where Valari, a traditional hunting weapon, is worshipped

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      Weaved in mud and leaves, how an Oraon artist is trying to preserve her language and rituals

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      On foot and Hercules cycles: In search of Buddha in the Chola country

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