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February 18, 2016 13 Hours: What actually happened at the US consulate in Benghazi
Photo Credit: Esam Al-Fetori /Reuters 13.2K Total Views Films can be used as powerful political weapons – and director Michael Bay’s latest film, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, is a case in point. Dramatising the deadly 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it has been trumpeted by right-wingers as an […]
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February 18, 2016 TN polls: Why almost all political parties want this Captain on board
Photo Credit: Youtube.com 13K Total Views When Opposition leader, Vijayakanth, also known as Captain, congratulated Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on his re-election as party president last month, tongues began wagging furiously in Tamil Nadu. “This means he is going to come with the NDA,” said an elated BJP leader. Captain, who leads the […]
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February 18, 2016 Third India-Sri Lanka Twenty20: Just how good is Ravichandran Ashwin?
Photo Credit: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP 10.7K Total Views The way it looks right now, it would seem that Ravichandran Ashwin would be able turn the ball on even the moon. The 29-year old lanky off-spinner from Chennai is in the form of his life. Toss him a ball and he’ll get you a wicket. […]
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February 18, 2016 What do we owe Rohith Vemula after his death?
Photo Credit: PTI 18.3K Total Views Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral research scholar at the Central University of Hyderabad, took his life last month by hanging himself with a political banner in a friend’s hostel room. Neither mental depression nor personal failure was the cause of the suicide. The crimes that led to his premature […]
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February 18, 2016 The man on the burning deck: Arsene Wenger and his insatiable quest for a fourth league title
Photo Credit: IKIMAGES/AFP 13.5K Total Views In a science fiction universe, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger would be the last man standing in a world overrun by peculiar-looking aliens and morbid zombies. After nearly two decades in North London, Wenger, perennially in search of an affirmative fourth league title, is the last steadfast beacon in the […]
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February 18, 2016 We were detained because we ‘looked like’ JNU students: Theatre group members picked up by police
Photo Credit: Sangwari/Facebook 61.5K Total Views In the aftermath of protests at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University against the arrest of student union president Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of criminal conspiracy and sedition on Friday, the police swung into action again on Saturday. A day after Kumar’s arrest, seven people were reportedly detained while trying […]
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February 18, 2016 Romance as sedition: Something new to try this Valentine’s Day
Photo Credit: Twitter 12.1K Total Views February 14 is Parent Worship Day or “Matru Pitru Diwas”. It is also the culmination of a “balidan saptah” or Sacrifice Week to commemorate martyrs like Bhagat Singh. If you were going around thinking it’s Valentine’s Day, you can get your mind out of the gutter. Or the Bajrang […]
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February 18, 2016 The police beating that opened America’s eyes to racial segregation laws
20.8K Total Views On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honourably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife. The bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard asked if […]
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February 18, 2016 Red cards in cricket: An idea whose time has come
Photo Credit: Saeed Khan / AFP 13.2K Total Views Cricket is often called the “gentleman’s game” but the reality is sometimes rather different. If the game conjured up romantic images of idyllic village greens and players clad in pristine white upholding the “spirit of the game” (whatever that means), it has metamorphosed into a multi-billion […]
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February 15, 2016 To defeat Mamata, CPI(M) and Congress weigh some unique alliance strategies
Photo Credit: IANS 15K Total Views The intensely polarised politics in West Bengal is edging closer to an unorthodox flexibility as the Congress and the Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), separately search for a way for the arch rivals to box in Mamata Banerjee. The Plan A under consideration in […]
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February 15, 2016 Followers of Ashutosh Maharaj insist he is in a deep state of meditation, in conditions that approximate a Himalayan cave.
Photo Credit: Courtesy: Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan 22.6K Total Views Last month, Ashutosh Maharaj, the head of the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, completed two years in a freezer. Doctors declared Maharaj clinically dead after he collapsed following complaints of severe chest pains on January 28, 2014. But Maharaj’s followers insist that he is actually in […]
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February 15, 2016 As the city’s young move out for studies or jobs, an industry is taking their place to take care of the senior citizens left behind.
Photo Credit: Rana Chakraborty 31.4K Total Views A drive down Kolkata’s spine, the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass that connects the north and south, will tell you what the city is really worried about. Between signboards advertising new-age condominiums, five-star hotels and schools with “world class” facilities are a number of ads by hospitals and pharma companies […]
