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Surekha Sikri passes away at 75
July 16, 2021
Surekha Sikri won the National Awards for the Best Supporting Actress thrice, more than anyone in the country. The first one was Tamas (1986), the second one Mammo (1994), and then the third one Badhaai Ho (2018). However, despite the unparalleled feat, the staggering number of f...
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Exploring religion, mythology and nature in Indian sculptures
July 15, 2021
One of the oldest art forms to exist, sculpture art has been a widespread practice since the Indus Valley Civilisation, when small terracotta figurines were first made, usually of women or animals. A significant way for historians to document life at the time, such as a war victo...
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UNSDGs: Sustainable development remains a goal too far
July 13, 2021
In many ways it was heartening to see that the G7 Summit 2021, held in the United Kingdom on June 11-13, delved in detail on topics beyond business, trade, investment, strategy and power. For once, it took up issues that concern people and their well-being – health, poverty, ed...
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4 years of GST: Anything but a Good, Simple Tax
July 10, 2021
When the Narendra Modi government rushed with the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), within weeks of its passage in the Parliament, several economists and opposition leaders had cautioned the government against a hurried implementation, advocating that that more ...
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Dilip Kumar, first of the Khans of Indian cinema
July 8, 2021
As cinema slowly achieved the position of the single largest disseminator of popular culture in India post-independence, Dilip Kumar, whose real name was Mohammed Yusuf Khan, slowly emerged as the first romantic icon of the country. With films such as Devdas (1...
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Modi makes it to rogues’ gallery in RSF Free Press Predators
July 7, 2021
In its report Free Press Predators, RSF has listed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with 26 other leaders from around the world that have stifled free press in their countries. The Paris-based global press freedom organization says Modi has been a ‘predator since takin...
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Rising sexual assaults on Indian college campuses
July 6, 2021
“It’s not a secret that India, and especially Delhi, is not the safest place for a woman to be, but in a college campus at least one feels that they’re in a space where they can exist without the constant fear of something terrible happening. When that is not the case, ther...
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Stan Swamy: Killed by callousness
July 5, 2021
On Monday, doctors of Holy Family hospital in Mumbai where tribal rights activist and Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, was being treated, told the Mumbai High Court that he had suffered from a cardiac arrest early this morning and di...
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Workers at rough end of lockdowns: Survey
July 4, 2021
A recent report by Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN) says that the second wave has hit the country’s informal sector workers much harder than the last year, even though nationwide lockdown had not been imposed, unlike in 2020. “Images of hungry and tired migrant workers ...
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The problem with romance on reality television
July 4, 2021
Reality shows featuring blossoming love on television have been around since the early 2000s, with re-runs of originals like The Bachelor (2002) being broadcasted even today. Despite accusations of these programmes being scripted, audiences are often unable to tear their eyes awa...
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Instagram brings back poetry from the dead
July 2, 2021
Rupi Kaur, an Indian-Canadian who is the first of the “insta-poets” with 4.3 million followers, has been praised for being a voice of diversity in a poetry scene largely dominated by white, male authors. Her first collection, milk & honey, which reached the New York Time...
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Online gaming boom in India brings rising dangers for users
July 2, 2021
Driven by affordable data, accessibility to smart phones and increasing disposable time due to the Covid-19 lockdowns, online gaming industry in India has witnessed a major boom in the time when the pandemic has had a catastrophic on majority if sectors. According to a report rel...
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