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Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94



New york: Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveller and fiction writer who became a pioneer of the transgender movement in middle age, died at 94 in Wales on Friday morning. AP

Canada to return goddess statue stolen from India 100 yrs ago

toronto: A Canadian university will soon return to India a unique statue of Hindu goddess Annapoorna that was stolen from a shrine in Varanasi over a century ago and found its way to the university's art gallery, in an attempt to “right historical wrongs” and help overcome the “damaging legacy of colonialism”. PTI


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