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The things we keep and use in the kitchen, especially, can conjure powerful memories: aromatic reminders of nurturing care and loving connection as well as less savory bites of deprivation, regret, disappointment and loss.

Inside its prisons and security facilities, the regime systematically executed thousands while untold others died as a result of beatings and other methods of torture along with deprivation of food, water, and medical care.

"Essentially the minds of patients were manipulated using verbal cues," she says, adding he also looked at the effects of sleep drugs, forced sensory deprivation, and induced coma.

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He sees the demand for a caste census as a push for more reservations - a cause driven by an "upwardly mobile minority", while the majority slips into deprivation and dependence on state aid.

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Sheffield charity Link Community Hub offers advice and support for those "disadvantaged due to poverty, deprivation and circumstances".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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