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February 14, 2016 Recreation of Ram Sethu on a map fuels a never-ending controversy
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons 40.8K Total Views On Thursday, the Supreme Court turned down a request by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy seeking an urgent hearing to verify if a Cabinet decision had been taken to “not touch” the ancient Ram Sethu or the Adam’s Bridge in the implementation of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel […]
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February 11, 2016 Brahminical faculty and Dalit goondas: Conversations at the distressed Hyderabad University campus
Photo Credit: PTI 27.4K Total Views By the third day, even the mundane started taking on meaning, or at least provoking questions. So it was with the sign that read “Regular Lunch” with a hand-drawn arrow pointing to a dining hall. Innocent no doubt, though occasion for a little head-scratching – what’s an “irregular lunch” […]
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February 11, 2016 They called him ‘AGK Sir’: AG Krishnamurthy (1942-2016), the man behind Mudra and MICA
21.3K Total Views In a lifetime spent in advertising, I have come to know plenty of fascinating personalities. But I must confess that AGK was not one of them. In fact, as he himself would readily admit, he was one of the more colourless people in the industry. And that is what makes his success […]
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February 11, 2016 The Daily Fix: Rohith Vemula’s death isn’t just because of Hindutva, plus nine other weekend reads
12.5K Total Views The Latest: Top stories of the day 1. With Maharashtra chief minister planning to step in, activists and the management of the Shani Shingnapur temple met to discuss the demand of letting women pray in its inner sanctum. 2. An investigative report into the death of a six-year-old in a Delhi school […]
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February 8, 2016 Why the sun is setting on the Boeing 747
Photo Credit: pixabay 30K Total Views It’s difficult to imagine now, in the age of mass global travel, that building an aeroplane to carry hundreds of people at a time was once seen as a huge risk. But as the world’s first wide-body airliner, the Boeing 747 went on to change not only aviation but […]
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February 8, 2016 Why no book-buying expedition can still match a visit to the Kolkata Book Fair
Photo Credit: IANS 18.9K Total Views I had been warned about the dust time and again. Magazine articles, friends, all warned, bhishon dhulo (awfully dusty)! So I was prepared for the 2016 Kolkata Book Fair to be something akin to the Thar Desert. What I had not expected, however, was the music. And the public […]
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February 7, 2016 ‘Bad elements’ or ‘no orders to control’: Who was responsible for Andhra train burning?
Photo Credit: Mridula Chari 21.1K Total Views On Sunday afternoon, Y Jaswanth boarded the Ratnachal Express from Visakhapatnam to Vijayawada at Tuni, a small town of 53,000 people in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district. Jaswanth, his wife and son hoped to reach Vijayawada by 6.30 that evening. Instead, their journey ended a few kilometres beyond […]
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February 7, 2016 Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar, India’s first openly gay artist
12.7K Total Views This is the full text of a presentation prepared by Ranjit Hoskote for the symposium, ‘Remembering Bhupen’, held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on January 27. 1. It seems faintly absurd to discuss the question of Bhupen Khakhar’s legacy in a country that legally regards one of […]
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February 7, 2016 Intizar Husain (1923-2016): The Pakistani writer who mourned what the Partition did not bring
Photo Credit: Tanveer Shehzad / Dawn 20.1K Total Views Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for 2013, Intizar Husain (1923-2016) has chronicled the changes that unspooled from the Partition of 1947 possibly like no other writer from the Indian subcontinent. Starting his literary career close on the heels of Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), he […]
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February 7, 2016 This year, Goans are being urged to hug a new Valentine – coconut trees
13.5K Total Views Last month, the Goa government declared that the state’s iconic coconut palm was not actually a tree. It removed the species from the purview of the Goa Daman and Diu Preservation of Trees Act, thus allowing palms to be felled without a permit. In a state where the palm is highly valued […]
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February 7, 2016 Disease may wipe out world’s bananas – but here’s how we might just save them
Photo Credit: pixabay 21.8K Total Views Catastrophe is looming for the banana industry. A new strain has emerged of a soil-borne fungus known as “Panama disease” which can wipe out entire plantations – and it is rapidly spreading around the world. Farmers in Australia, Latin America and across Asiaand Africa all fear the worst. The […]
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February 7, 2016 TRS sweeps Hyderabad polls, decisively settling the question of whom the city belongs to
Photo Credit: IANS 25.7K Total Views On Friday, as results began to come in for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections held on February 2, it was clear that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti was doing much better than the opinion polls had predicted. The surveys had shown that the party would get 75-85 seats in […]
