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1 month ago

The Malayalis of Macondo

KOCHI: Time doesn’t flow linearly in Macondo. Time alone bears witness to this magical town by the river, founded by patriarch José Arcadio Buendía, who dreamt of a city of mirrors. Often regarded as the greatest novel of the 20th century, Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, transforms Macondo into a sprawling character on its own. The …

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7 months, 1 week ago

I'm Britain's first gypsy billionaire - but there will definitely be MORE after me: Alfie Best claims there are wealthy traveller 'stars' hiding their identity and reveals the lesson that took him fro

Daily Mail

Britain's richest gypsy, Alfie Best, believes there will be other rich travellers Self-proclaimed 'billionaire gypsy' Alfie Best says he is now officially living up to his playboy nickname - and predicts there are plenty of other rich travellers out there who are more reluctant to disclose their true wealth. Britain's richest gypsy - whose fortune is actually somewhere near the …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Delhiwale: Vikram Seth’s florist

Hindustan Times

One icy noon, two winters ago, a tiny red car halted by a pavement florist. Vikram Seth sportingly condescended to be snapped with the flowers, but didn’t reveal to which suitable person this lucky bunch of red roses and gypsies were intended for. The florist stall situated just outside the fence of Mughal-era poet Rahim’s garden-tomb Such a VIP location …

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11 months ago

Never mind the mess, Carnival kicks off in Rio de Janeiro with coronation of King Momo

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 To thunderous applause, Rio de …

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1 year ago

At Tadoba, four safari drivers make a clean, quiet beginning

Hindustan Times

Of the 300 safari vehicles at the tiger reserve in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, four have converted their Gypsies from petrol to battery-operated vehicles, embracing a clean and quiet initiative that is also monetarily more rewarding, said a reserve official. HT Image Each safari vehicle carries six tourists and makes two trips into the buffer and core zones of the reserve …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Spain and the Hispanic World review: An elegant, old-fashioned dive into identity

The Independent

This plainly titled exhibition induces a strange sense of being trapped in another era. And that era isn’t one of the actual historical periods covered in the show’s fascinating assortment of treasures from New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library – be it Spain’s 16th century Golden Age or colonial Mexico. This “visual narrative of the history of Spanish culture” …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Tyson Fury goads Oleksandr Usyk for 'hiding' and promises to OBLITERATE his rival

Daily Mail

Tyson Fury has promised to 'obliterate' Oleksandr Usyk in a heavyweight unification fight and told the Ukrainian to stop 'hiding' from a meeting later this year. After retaining his WBA, WBO and IBF titles with a split-decision win over Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia last month, Usyk said that facing Fury was the 'only' bout that he is interested in. …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Gypsies are one of the most vulnerable groups in society – why are we still ignored?

The Independent

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2 years, 11 months ago

Jimmy Carr: Sajid Javid calls for boycott against comedian after ‘horrid’ Holocaust joke

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Health Secretary Sajid Javid has called Jimmy Carr’s controversial joke about …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Jimmy Carr: Rob Rinder calls out fans who ‘clapped’ and ‘cheered’ comedian’s ‘breathtakingly racist’ joke

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rob Rinder has called out the audience who “whooped and laughed” …

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2 years, 11 months ago

No, Jimmy Carr, your joke about Gypsies is not funny

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Stand-up comedians …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Jimmy Carr says he will be CANCELLED over Holocaust joke about gypsies

Daily Mail

Jimmy Carr has claimed he will be cancelled over his joke that the 'thousands of gypsies killed by the Nazis' was a 'positive' effect of the Holocaust. Pictured: Comedian Jimmy Carr has been criticised for a 'truly disturbing' joke made about the travelling community and the Holocaust in his latest show the Netflix special His Dark Material A woman in …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Jimmy Carr faces backlash after making 'disturbing' Holocaust joke about Gypsies in new Netflix show

Daily Mail

Jimmy Carr has been criticised for a 'truly disturbing' joke made about the travelling community and the Holocaust in Netflix special His Dark Material. Pictured: Comedian Jimmy Carr has been criticised for a 'truly disturbing' joke made about the travelling community and the Holocaust in his latest show the Netflix special His Dark Material As a punchline, the 49-year-old then …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Corbett Tiger Reserve’s Bijrani zone opens for jungle safari, night stay

Hindustan Times

The Bijrani Zone of the Corbett Tiger Reserve has been opened for jungle safari and night stay from Friday. According to Corbett Tiger Reserve’s schedule, Bijrani zone opens on October 15 and remains open till June while Dhikala remains open from November 15 to June 15. He said Dhikala zone will be reopened on November 15 and the booking facility …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Enid Blyton: Why seeing sexism, racism in her work should not make us unsee her

Hindustan Times

Enid Blyton, the beloved children's author who touched millions of lives with her writing, was never a stranger to controversy. In almost all Enid Blyton's books, gypsies and foreigners are often cast as dishonest, leaving bare the tinge of xenophobia in her writing. Charity English Heritage, an organisation that installs blue plaques at sites that were once the working or …

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3 years, 8 months ago

I’m a Romany Gypsy – the government’s Police Bill will criminalise my culture

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The government’s new Police, Crime, Sentencing …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Ayushmann Khurrana, wife Tahira and kids turn 'gypsies of Kaziranga'

India TV News

Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana on Monday shared a family photograph from Kaziranga, Assam, where he poses with wife Tahira Kashyap, son Virajveer Khurrana and daughter Varushka Khurrana. Feb 2021," Ayushmann captioned the photo which shows the beautiful family posing along with a car with the setting sun making a beautiful backdrop. In another picture, she gave a glimpse of the …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Modified jeeps and all that you need to know about them

India Today

One of the hottest properties in the 4wd market after brand new Mahindra Thar is surely modified jeeps. Some of them are brought in from army auctions and are called auction Jeeps while some are rebuilt Mahindra Jeeps, Maruti Suzuki Gypsies or even the odd Nissan Jonga. A modified Maruti Suzuki Gypsy we saw was given full body armour and …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Mistaking gelatine stick for snack, 6-yr-old Tamil Nadu kid takes a bite, dies

India TV News

In a tragic incident, a six-year-old boy died after a gelatine stick exploded in his mouth as he thought it was a snack and bit into it near Trichirappalli district, said police. Bhoopathi's elder brother Gangadharan had bought three gelatine sticks from a stone quarry manager. However, on a tip-off the police arrested Gangadharan, his friend Mohanraj and the stone …

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4 years, 8 months ago

‘We have a long way to go’: How Spain’s gypsies are trying to break through the glass ceiling

The Independent

Susana Martinez Heredia grew up in a notorious part of Barcelona that tourists never see. open image in gallery Susana Martinez Heredia standing next to a statue of Camaron de la Isla in La Mina “None of my classmates at Esade had ever met a gypsy; they did not know anything about our lives. “We seem to make progress, then …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19: With no trains, gypsies, labourers from north India stranded in Bengal towns

Hindustan Times

With no trains to take them to their village in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, a band of banjaras are living in the open in north Bengal’s Siliguri town. Hunu Prasad, the oldest man in the group said, “We somehow managed to reach the school and have been living here since then.” The school ground is around 500 metres from Siliguri station. …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Nazi Josef Mengele's choice 'specimen' was a 12-year-old boy's head

Daily Mail

Josef Mengele was the embodiment of evil, prowling the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in the 1940s for his helpless victims, with the Nazi being obsessed with anomalies and carried out the most sadistic experiments on those prisoners, a new book reveals. Captivated by oddities, victims of Mengele's medical experiments were chosen based on different eye colors, growth anomalies such as …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Archivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim

The Economist

Listen to this story. When the Red Army liberated the Third Reich’s biggest death factory on January 27th 1945, 75 years ago this week, it found 7,000kg of human hair shorn from the corpses. The overall civilian death toll attributed to the Nazis—including Gypsies, disabled people, gays, prisoners and bystanders to combat—was perhaps three times greater. Even though that camp …

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5 years ago

Discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities has been ignored in parliament – we deserve protection too

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We are raising our concerns that …

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The Malayalis of Macondo

I'm Britain's first gypsy billionaire - but there will definitely be MORE after me: Alfie Best claims there are wealthy traveller 'stars' hiding their identity and reveals the lesson that took him fro

Delhiwale: Vikram Seth’s florist

Never mind the mess, Carnival kicks off in Rio de Janeiro with coronation of King Momo

At Tadoba, four safari drivers make a clean, quiet beginning

Spain and the Hispanic World review: An elegant, old-fashioned dive into identity

Tyson Fury goads Oleksandr Usyk for 'hiding' and promises to OBLITERATE his rival

Gypsies are one of the most vulnerable groups in society – why are we still ignored?

Jimmy Carr: Sajid Javid calls for boycott against comedian after ‘horrid’ Holocaust joke

Jimmy Carr: Rob Rinder calls out fans who ‘clapped’ and ‘cheered’ comedian’s ‘breathtakingly racist’ joke

No, Jimmy Carr, your joke about Gypsies is not funny

Jimmy Carr says he will be CANCELLED over Holocaust joke about gypsies

Jimmy Carr faces backlash after making 'disturbing' Holocaust joke about Gypsies in new Netflix show

Corbett Tiger Reserve’s Bijrani zone opens for jungle safari, night stay

Enid Blyton: Why seeing sexism, racism in her work should not make us unsee her

I’m a Romany Gypsy – the government’s Police Bill will criminalise my culture

Ayushmann Khurrana, wife Tahira and kids turn 'gypsies of Kaziranga'

Modified jeeps and all that you need to know about them

Mistaking gelatine stick for snack, 6-yr-old Tamil Nadu kid takes a bite, dies

‘We have a long way to go’: How Spain’s gypsies are trying to break through the glass ceiling

Covid-19: With no trains, gypsies, labourers from north India stranded in Bengal towns

Nazi Josef Mengele's choice 'specimen' was a 12-year-old boy's head

Archivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim

Discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities has been ignored in parliament – we deserve protection too