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‘Who is winning?’: The inevitable question that reporters face
2 weeks, 5 days ago

‘Who is winning?’: The inevitable question that reporters face

The Hindu  

For a reporter, it is always exciting and challenging to cover elections. Yet, the inevitable question that journalists face from colleagues, family, friends, acquaintances, and even leaders during elections is “Who is going to win?” At some point during this election, this became a common conversation starter as though reporters are privy to some secret knowledge about the numbers game. …

Maharashtra Election Question Reporters Face
Joan Armatrading interview: ‘I love a good gossip – but there’s a reason I won’t discuss my private life’
1 month, 1 week ago

Joan Armatrading interview: ‘I love a good gossip – but there’s a reason I won’t discuss my private life’

The Independent  

I write about people,” says Joan Armatrading, “whether they’re in love, out of love, looking for love, in love with a place – in love with whatever.” Over the past half-century, the 73-year-old singer-songwriter has been one of music’s foremost chroniclers of love, in all its myriad forms and complexities. It is love that courses so potently through ballads such …

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Real olde world directions
4 months ago

Real olde world directions

New Indian Express  

The history of mapping can be traced to more than 5,000 years ago. Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court at the Maharaja Fatesingh Museum, Vadodara, attempts to showcase this depth and finesse of chroniclers of the past. It features a diverse collection from The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, of paintings, photographs and printed maps that depict …

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Veteran TV trade journal Broadcasting + Cable is shutting down, in a sign of the times for media
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Veteran TV trade journal Broadcasting + Cable is shutting down, in a sign of the times for media

LA Times  

Broadcasting + Cable, founded in 1931 as Broadcasting, will print its final issue in September. According to a post on the Broadcasting + Cable website, Future will replace the publications with a new “curated” newsletter about media and entertainment. “This industry is going through rapid transformation that requires our business to adapt,” said Amanda Darman-Allen, senior vice president for Future’s …

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Brotherhood of lapsed spies turned chroniclers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Brotherhood of lapsed spies turned chroniclers

Hindustan Times  

Perhaps even John le Carre would have considered it too improbable to be credible. Durrani joined the military and adds: “I don’t think I ever regretted it”. Dulat began as a policeman but admits this was because “I couldn’t make it to the better services”. Dulat says he admires Durrani’s “candour … the fact he always calls a spade a …

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Taj Mahal not built by king Shahjahan Delhi High Court PIL demands history books correction latest updates uttar pradesh – India TV
1 year, 1 month ago

Taj Mahal not built by king Shahjahan Delhi High Court PIL demands history books correction latest updates uttar pradesh – India TV

India TV News  

Taj Mahal history : The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Archeological Survey of India to decide representation seeking change in the books of history pertaining to the construction of the Taj Mahal, claiming there is no historical evidence of demolition of palace of Raja Man Singh and fresh construction of Taj Mahal on the same site. The bench …

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Review of Ranjit Lal’s The Harmony of Bees and other Charms of Creepy Crawlies: Extraordinary creatures
1 year, 2 months ago

Review of Ranjit Lal’s The Harmony of Bees and other Charms of Creepy Crawlies: Extraordinary creatures

The Hindu  

All invaders and conquerors have their chroniclers. “They are hugely useful to us: collectively 25 million tons of spiders consume between 400 and 800 million tons of crop-destroying pests, so we ought to doff our hats to them every time we see them,” is just one more sentence to show how much the writer likes the small arachnids. “The aam …

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Chroniclers of Uyghur life disappear in Xi’s China
1 year, 3 months ago

Chroniclers of Uyghur life disappear in Xi’s China

The Hindu  

“There are so few of us left,” Ilham Tohti reflected during a walk through the lush grounds of Beijing’s Minzu University, which specialises in the study of China’s ethnic minorities, during a conversation in 2013. Mr. Tohti, an Uyghur economist and intellectual from China’s vast western Xinjiang region, had become among the few minority Uyghur scholars with a wide following …

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The Case Against Momfluencers
1 year, 7 months ago

The Case Against Momfluencers

Wired  

I own three versions of the OFFLINE by Aerie Wow! Waffle Henley T-shirt, in medium heather gray, marbled blue, and a shade of faded sage green the company calls “earthy vibes.” I don’t usually buy triples of anything, but I was influenced, you see. Like many other moms, I have a favorite “momfluencer.” She’s a sunny neonatal nurse with four …

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The sumptuous culinary literature of Goa
1 year, 8 months ago

The sumptuous culinary literature of Goa

Live Mint  

For a Goan food writer who shares a surname with one of the earliest chroniclers of Goa’s rich and diverse food history, speculative familial connections are an occupational hazard. Though this year of publication remains a source of conjecture among Goan food historians since first-edition copies are not available, one of the earliest editions of the book known to exist …

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How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food
1 year, 8 months ago

How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food

Live Mint  

Charmaine O’Brien’s newest release – her third book, Eating the Present, Tasting the Future with the subtext, Exploring India through her changing food—had me smiling right from her introduction. The smile stayed because O’Brien’s book, that releases today, chronicles the change in her understanding of India, its culture and food over several years of subsequent visits. Across O’Brien’s 392-pager, you …

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How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food
1 year, 8 months ago

How restaurants, MasterChef and YouTube shaped Indian food

Live Mint  

Charmaine O’Brien’s newest release – her third book, Eating the Present, Tasting the Future with the subtext, Exploring India through her changing food—had me smiling right from her introduction. The smile stayed because O’Brien’s book, that releases today, chronicles the change in her understanding of India, its culture and food over several years of subsequent visits. Across O’Brien’s 392-pager, you …

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The growing tribe of tree chroniclers on Instagram
1 year, 8 months ago

The growing tribe of tree chroniclers on Instagram

Live Mint  

A delicate mauve jacaranda sways in the gentle summer breeze. Some of these Instagram pages share information about the different species of trees in a particular city or region, while others share spectacular specimens growing in public spaces. “After following Trees of Cochin, if people are stopping to look at a tree on their way to somewhere, I consider that …

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George Alexander, L.A. Times reporter who chronicled space exploration, dies
2 years, 4 months ago

George Alexander, L.A. Times reporter who chronicled space exploration, dies

LA Times  

George Alexander was a science writer for the L.A. Times from 1972 to 1985 covering the U.S. space programs. In a career that spanned five decades, including 13 years at the Los Angeles Times, Alexander was one of the foremost chroniclers of the country’s space exploration programs, capturing both their failures and triumphs. During other shuttle launches, Alexander embedded with …

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Place where Black Death emerged is discovered after more than 600 years
2 years, 6 months ago

Place where Black Death emerged is discovered after more than 600 years

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Our study puts to rest one of the biggest and most fascinating …

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Frozen birds and flooded towns: How Britain grappled with climate change 500 years ago
2 years, 8 months ago

Frozen birds and flooded towns: How Britain grappled with climate change 500 years ago

The Telegraph  

Chroniclers reported storms so fierce that they “hath not been seene, nor heard of in this age of the World”. The researchers found that the winters grew so cold that birds would drop, frozen from the skies, while rivers such as the Thames froze over, allowing “frost fairs” to be held. In 1600, heavy snows and frosts well into the …

Review: Jake Gyllenhaal carries claustrophobic ‘The Guilty’
3 years, 3 months ago

Review: Jake Gyllenhaal carries claustrophobic ‘The Guilty’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An emergency dispatch center doesn’t …

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Royal Past & Islamic Matrilineal Kinship: Lakshadweep's Rich History Has Always Left Chroniclers At Sea
3 years, 6 months ago

Royal Past & Islamic Matrilineal Kinship: Lakshadweep's Rich History Has Always Left Chroniclers At Sea

News 18  

Opposition parties in Lakshadweep and Kerala are up in arms against various measures initiated by the Administrator of the group of islands, terming them as “anti-people” and have sought his recall. In 1908, Imbichi Ali Raja, the then Arakkal ruler of Lakshadweep, agreed to surrender sovereignty over the islands in return for an annual malikhana of Rs 23,000—an amount that …

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Indian films that sparked the critic in me: Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane is the ultimate portrait of rejection in old age
4 years, 1 month ago

Indian films that sparked the critic in me: Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane is the ultimate portrait of rejection in old age

Firstpost  

For most chroniclers of India’s cinematic history, Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane is a rare portrait of the Anglo-Indian community as seen through the life of its protagonist. In a world that even today takes a condescending view of single life, where the definitive English literary representations of spinsterhood popular in India remain Charles Dickens’ decaying and embittered Miss Havisham …

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