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Russian troops capture Kurakhove amid ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine

Russian troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the stronghold of Kurakhove after a monthslong battle, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Monday, adding the wrecked town to the Kremlin’s list of conquests in the partially occupied Donetsk region during the almost three-year war. After a months-long conflict, Russian forces in eastern Ukraine have taken control of the Kurakhove stronghold The claim, which …

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Russia claims it has captured another town in eastern Ukraine but Kyiv doesn’t confirm the loss

Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the stronghold of Kurakhove after a monthslong battle, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Monday, adding the wrecked town to the Kremlin’s list of conquests in the partially occupied Donetsk region during the almost three-year war. The claim, which drew no response from Ukrainian authorities, came a day after the Russian Defense …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

‘It Ends With Us’ author Colleen Hoover stands by Blake Lively amid sexual harassment case against Justin Baldoni

Live Mint

Colleen Hoover, the author of It Ends With Us, the novel that inspired the film adaptation of the same name, has publicly shown her support for actress Blake Lively. In a lawsuit filed on Friday, Blake Lively, 37, alleged that Baldoni, who also directed the film, engaged in inappropriate behavior during the production and led efforts to tarnish her reputation …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Mahati Kannan and Ramya Venkataraman explored the concept of Shakti through well-researched pieces

The Hindu

‘Prakrti to Para, An Exploration of Sakthi’, conceptualised and visualised by Bharatanrithyam dancers Mahati Kannan and Ramya Venkatraman of Nrithyodaya, was an exploration of the Divine Mother from the physical and the metaphysical plane, as described in the Vedas. ‘Devi as Prakrti is everywhere — as the Earth Goddess, as the dense forest, the fruits and flowers, as the sacred …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Review: In sharp documentary ‘Dahomey,’ African art returns home, but colonialism still stings

LA Times

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism that continues the enthralling, otherworldly quality of her 2019 …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Study reveals how mysterious cave-dwelling medieval Christians in Spain survived plagues and conquests

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A small devout Christian community survived a tumultuous medieval period living …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Rumble in South China Sea: Bellicose China versus law-abiding others

Firstpost

The confluence of law-abiding nations to preserve peace and stability in South China Sea is moving from the ‘talks and negotiations in board rooms’ approach to ‘arming the smaller powers’ in the region China’s flagrant violations of international rules, judgements from international tribunals, and belligerent behaviour in the South China Sea add to the predicament. China’s flagrant violations of international …

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9 months, 1 week ago

DC Edit | Talk to China, ignore hot air

Deccan Chronicle

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh’s assertion that India will continue with diplomatic and military talks with China in seeking a peaceful solution four years after the skirmishes of Galwan Valley reflects a practical approach even if there has been little change in historical bilateral antagonism. Disengagement may come about only if the talks go on, however intransigent China might seem …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

How a Citigroup unit in New York turned into a hotbed of drugs, sexual harassment

Hindustan Times

Bankers from Citigroup Inc. were partying with clients one night in May 2018 at a downtown Manhattan hot spot called Catch. As the evening progressed, one of the unit’s bosses came up behind the roommate and surprised her by grinding his crotch against her, according to two people who said they saw him. “Although several of the alleged incidents would …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Xi Jinping’s historians can’t stop rewriting China’s imperial past

Live Mint

China’s Communist Party often speaks proudly about what it claims to be 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. For decades, Chinese scholars have been toiling at the party’s behest to draft an official history of the Qing, China’s last imperial dynasty, which the Manchu ethnic group led for nearly 270 years before its collapse in the early 20th century. Party vetters, …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

How many sexual partners is too many sexual partners?

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Napoleon Is a Spectacular Mess

Slate

It sounds strange to say that a 2-hour-and-38-minute-long epic like Ridley Scott’s Napoleon feels rushed, but even a runtime that capacious proves too short for this ambitious but muddled film to cover almost three decades of its subject’s absurdly eventful life. During a dozen-year stretch of international conflict known as the Napoleonic Wars, the leader who was sometimes called the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Danny Cipriani admits threesomes became his 'norm' but left him feeling 'dejected' afterwards because sex had become 'a form of self-harm'

Daily Mail

Danny Cipriani has opened up on his many sexual conquests during the height of his fame as a professional rugby player. Discussing his active love life back during his golden years, Danny admitted to partaking in numerous threesomes, but confessed they left him feeling 'dejected'. Candid: Danny Cipriani has opened up on his many sexual conquests during the height of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Om Raut’s Adipurush blurs out the complexities of Valmiki’s Ramayana

The Hindu

Published : Jun 29, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ One of the most poignant, destabilising images from the Ramayana is one painted by Raja Ravi Varma, where Ravana is shown slicing off Jatayu’s wing with his sword while grabbing a distraught Sita with his other hand. The tension that this suggestion of intimacy creates sprouts from the fount, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, engaging in dueling diplomacy with Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to promote Beijing’s peace proposal for Ukraine that Western nations have all but dismissed as a non-starter. “It looks like the West indeed intends to …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad distorted Indian history to cover up the misdeeds of Islamic tyrants

Op India

We have always been taught in school that Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb were the ‘greatest’ emperors of the Mughal dynasty. Abul Kalam Azad exalted Mughals and attempted to whitewash their sins while obfuscating Hindu history From 1947 till his death in 1958, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was India’s Education Minister. All of them combined to present …

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2 years, 3 months ago

The Shortest History of India Book Review: Zubrzycki packs 5000-year-old history in a pocket

India Today

While India marked 75 years of Independence in August and entered a new era, its story has been fairly old, rooted in ancient civilisation, historical conquests, and exploitative tales of colonisation. This pocket book on history is a fine read if you are in a hurry and need a breather on India’s past which began in the Indus Valley Civilisation, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Israel’s war on love

Al Jazeera

Israel loves war, even a war on love. Before we get to Israel’s latest bizarre assault on Palestinian romance, let us briefly address its tragic relationship with war, for no other country has fought as many wars in so few years. Israel’s latest directive on foreigners’ entry into the occupied Palestinian territories was published on September 4 and has been …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Commonwealth Games, a stepping stone for bigger conquests

The Hindu

In February this year, as he made a deadlift, 19-year-old weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga felt a sharp pain streak across his lower back. Eyeing a hattrick: “I still think that gold medal at the Gold Coast Games was important because it gave back the self-belief I had lost after my injury at the Olympics,” says wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who will be …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Ponniyin Selvan 2.0: Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus is a tipping point to take the Tamil classic to different generations in contemporary forms

The Hindu

This festive season, the slew of big-screen releases will be led by Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan: I. A case in point is Nila Comics, a publication house in Chennai, which brought out a Ponniyin Selvan comic collection in Tamil and English in 2020 and 2021 aligned to the making of the movie. Gurgaon-based Chandrasekar Ramamoorthy, a young dad …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Opinion: Putin knows that controlling history is the key to total power

CNN

Editor’s Note: Cristina Florea is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University whose research, writing and teaching focus on Central and Eastern Europe. CNN — Like previous wars, Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an attack not only on the living but also on the dead, whose traces in the historical record risk being completely erased if evidence of the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Russian military slog in Ukraine a ‘dreadful mess’ for Putin

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The signs are abundant of how Ukraine frustrated Vladimir Putin’s hopes for a swift victory and how Russia’s military proved far from ready for the fight. Ukraine’s president said Russia is trying to starve Ukraine’s cities into submission and that Putin is deliberately creating “a humanitarian catastrophe.” “His instinct will be always to double down because he’s got …

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3 years, 1 month ago

China sees Bhutan as the final piece in its South Asian conquests

India Today

There are times the world suddenly wakes up to reality. While China originally claimed to have set this up in the South TAR for Tibetans to resettle and “raise the bright five-star red flag high”, it is in fact located well inside Bhutan’s territory. The village Gyalaphug is located almost 7 kilometers into Bhutan territory, which has been claimed by …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Leftist History Negates India’s Civilisational Greatness, Underplays Bloody Islamic Conquests

News 18

English novelist George Orwell had mentioned in his book ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ that “who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” This could not have been more germane than in the legacy wars and live battlefield that Indian historiography routinely becomes. Sir John Strachey, a British administrator in-charge of training the Imperial Civil Service newbies …

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Russian troops capture Kurakhove amid ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine

Russia claims it has captured another town in eastern Ukraine but Kyiv doesn’t confirm the loss

‘It Ends With Us’ author Colleen Hoover stands by Blake Lively amid sexual harassment case against Justin Baldoni

Mahati Kannan and Ramya Venkataraman explored the concept of Shakti through well-researched pieces

Review: In sharp documentary ‘Dahomey,’ African art returns home, but colonialism still stings

Study reveals how mysterious cave-dwelling medieval Christians in Spain survived plagues and conquests

Rumble in South China Sea: Bellicose China versus law-abiding others

DC Edit | Talk to China, ignore hot air

How a Citigroup unit in New York turned into a hotbed of drugs, sexual harassment

Xi Jinping’s historians can’t stop rewriting China’s imperial past

How many sexual partners is too many sexual partners?

Napoleon Is a Spectacular Mess

Danny Cipriani admits threesomes became his 'norm' but left him feeling 'dejected' afterwards because sex had become 'a form of self-harm'

Om Raut’s Adipurush blurs out the complexities of Valmiki’s Ramayana

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad distorted Indian history to cover up the misdeeds of Islamic tyrants

The Shortest History of India Book Review: Zubrzycki packs 5000-year-old history in a pocket

Israel’s war on love

Commonwealth Games, a stepping stone for bigger conquests

Ponniyin Selvan 2.0: Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus is a tipping point to take the Tamil classic to different generations in contemporary forms

Opinion: Putin knows that controlling history is the key to total power

Russian military slog in Ukraine a ‘dreadful mess’ for Putin

China sees Bhutan as the final piece in its South Asian conquests

Leftist History Negates India’s Civilisational Greatness, Underplays Bloody Islamic Conquests