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1 week, 5 days ago

Manmohan Singh: A reformer who had concern for vulnerable groups

The passing away of Dr Manmohan Singh creates a big void in India’s intellectual scene. The second change in direction was to reverse the strong bias towards state ownership of means of production and proliferation of public sector enterprises in almost every sphere of economic activity. The private sector is being given a larger space to operate in, as some …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

El papa insta a ‘todos los pueblos de todas las naciones’ a silenciar armas y superar divisiones

Associated Press

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO — El papa Francisco en su mensaje tradicional de Navidad el miércoles instó a “todos los pueblos de todas las naciones” a encontrar el valor durante este Año Santo “para silenciar los sonidos de las armas y superar las divisiones” que afligen al mundo, desde Medio Oriente hasta Ucrania, África hasta Asia. a convertirse en peregrinos de …

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Shyam Benegal, Indian cinema’s Renaissance man

Live Mint

Filmmaker Shyam Benegal died today in Mumbai at the age of 90. How telling can you make your images and how much can you pack into a film without using gimmicks.” Benegal’s filmmaking oeuvre—24 films over a period of 50 years, beginning with Ankur —can be viewed purely as sophisticated, politically and socially engaged meditations of matter over form, density, …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Miles de sirios celebran en Damasco en primer viernes de oraciones desde caída de Assad

Associated Press

DAMASCO — Miles de sirios se reunieron en la principal mezquita de Damasco para las primeras oraciones musulmanas del viernes desde la destitución del presidente Bashar Assad, mientras multitudes celebraban en la plaza más grande de la capital. Esto ocurrió mientras el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Antony Blinken, se reunía con aliados en la región buscando dar forma …

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1 month ago

Tell us: What smells remind you of L.A.?

LA Times

There’s no single smell that defines Los Angeles. Certain scents are often linked to the bustling streets of downtown or the verdant banks of the L.A. River, while others are tied to the more secluded, quiet corners of places like Mount Washington or Bel-Air. The city’s essence shifts subtly as you move through it, with each location offering a different …

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1 month, 1 week ago

¿Sigue siendo el Black Friday un coloso de las compras navideñas en 2024?

Associated Press

NUEVA YORK — Los minoristas en Estados Unidos se valieron de obsequios y grandes descuentos para recompensar a los compradores que acudieron a las tiendas en el Black Friday, esperanzados de que el día siga siendo el publicitado inicio de la temporada de compras navideñas. No obstante, suficientes consumidores aún disfrutan de las compras navideñas en persona, lo que permite …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Save on Streaming With Our Peacock Promo Code

Wired

Named after NBC’s iconic logo, Peacock is a video streaming service primarily featuring series and film content from NBC Universal studios, as well as news and sports programming. Premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content—yes, we’re talkin’ wrasslin.’ And right now, you can get access to all those programs …

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3 months ago

Rosenthal: The ‘Sinister Sling’ and the multitudes of Manny Machado

New York Times

Yep, I said it, right there on national TV. During Fox Sports’ Sunday night broadcast of Game 2 of the Division Series, I spoke about an emotional meeting Manny Machado led in the San Diego Padres’ dugout. Manny Machado talks with the umpires during the sixth inning of Sunday’s contentious Game 2 of the NLDS between the Padres and Dodgers. …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Blake Lively’s sister responds to fan comment about ‘negative voices’ amid backlash

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: Well-intentioned ‘Rob Peace’ flattens out the complexity of a true story of race and fate

LA Times

Statistics about the social mobility of Black lives don’t always do justice to what it looks like up close for one person. That’s where movies come in handy as vessels of understanding and, in “Rob Peace,” a dramatization about a real-life Yale student whose trajectory defies easy categorization, writer-director Chiwetel Ejiofor proves more earnest than skillful at bringing heartfelt complexity …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Green Day review, Old Trafford Manchester: Sonic flashbacks to pop-punk’s most defining and vindicating moments

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After a large pink rabbit – the band’s long-term …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

A yoga story for International Yoga Day

Hindustan Times

In 2015, the Indian government, in a coup of sorts, convinced the UN General Assembly to declare June 21st as International Day of Yoga, thus reclaiming yoga, which had proliferated across the world in a variety of avatars, for Bharat. Since then, multitudes of eager Indians and non-Indians have come together on this day each year to perform a series …

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7 months ago

Hitting the right notes: How protests have shaped our lives

Hindustan Times

Protest is a uniquely human activity. “That sounds like a really small number, but in absolute terms it’s really an impressive number of people,” Chenoweth added, in an interview in the Harvard Gazette. Could you imagine if 11.5 million people—that’s about three times the size of the 2017 Women’s March—were doing something like mass non-cooperation in a sustained way?” The …

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7 months ago

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 7 : All Songs Considered

NPR

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 7 : All Songs Considered NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Hazel Cills shepherd you through the many huge albums out today, including new records by Kaytranada, Charli XCX and so much more. Featured albums: - Kaytranada, 'Timeless' - Charli XCX, 'brat' - Pedro the Lion, 'Santa Cruz' Other notable albums: - Tems, …

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7 months ago

Chhetri bids an emotional goodbye

The Hindu

Thanks Captain, Leader, Legend was the message unfurled on the stands right behind one of the goals at the Salt Lake Stadium here as thousands of fans wildly cheered the most successful footballer of the country, Sunil Chhetri. Owning an unparalleled record of playing 151 matches and scoring 94 goals, thousands had gathered to see Chhetri finish his last match. …

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9 months, 1 week ago

March, a busy month for places of religious worship in Chennai

The Hindu

March was a busy month for places of religious worship in the city. The Tamil star of Uthiram in the month of Panguni, falling on the full moon day, is also special for the Murugan temple at Vadapalani, which is officially known as the Arulmigu Vadapalani Andavar Temple. The St. Mary’s Church of South India, consecrated in 1680, the oldest …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

ICYMI: Aussie horror Late Night with the Devil faces AI scandal, Heartbreak High returns and more

ABC

Ready for a round-up of essential pop culture news? This week's ICYMI stories: Hyped Aussie horror faces AI scandal While preliminary reviews had horror enthusiasts hyped for Late Night with the Devil — a new film written and directed by Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes — the film's use of AI-generated imagery has led some to boycott the film. …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Length and breadth: On Rahul Gandhi and his yatras

The Hindu

The second edition of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, concluded in Mumbai on March 17 with a rally that also saw the participation of some of the party’s allies. With Mr. Gandhi tramping through the picturesque countryside, the first yatra delivered a nebulous message of love and harmony framed around the slogan, Nafrat …

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1 year ago

The Boy and the Heron review: anime legend Hayao Miyazaki makes a grand, beautiful, tortured return

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron …

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1 year ago

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom

LA Times

Amid the roaring motors and screeching tires of “Ferrari,” Michael Mann’s operatic saga of fast cars, furious women and the powerful human citadel who toyed with them all, a moment occasionally rises from the smoke with the grace and clarity of an aria. Although drawn from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine,” …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Majorette Dancing Is For Every Body, Period.

Huff Post

Majorette dance style is, hands down, one of the swaggiest ways a person can express themselves physically, which is why so many dancers flock to it. However, North Carolina A&T’s first plus-size majorette team, Liquid Gold, is challenging these notions by reminding us the beauty of Black culture truly lies in the multitudes of its niches. “I was in summer …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘I saw brutality, but also solidarity,’ says Sudha Bharadwaj, author of From Phansi Yard, of her days in prison

The Hindu

Sudha Bharadwaj, an IITian, turned her back on American citizenship and chose to work instead with the faceless multitudes of Dalli Rajhara and Bhilai. Yes, the transition from being a single child of a single feminist mother, brought up in an academic environment, in an urban and materially comfortable household and shifting to the small mining town of Dalli Rajhara …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Assam Chief Minister questions legitimacy of Gandhi surname of Indira and family

India Today

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday questioned the legitimacy of former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi and her family members using the ‘Gandhi’ surname, calling them ‘sardar of duplicates’. He also slammed the Congress for using the word ‘INDIA’ as the acronym for the opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, claiming that the grand old party uses …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Free libraries are a big hope in need of policy support

Live Mint

A member of a small free library in the national capital of the world’s largest democracy shares her thinking about the choice of red as the background colour for a poster she has created. In any case, in that same library, just the previous day the librarian noted yet another Urdu book marked in pencil with a handwritten “Jai Shree …

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Manmohan Singh: A reformer who had concern for vulnerable groups

El papa insta a ‘todos los pueblos de todas las naciones’ a silenciar armas y superar divisiones

Shyam Benegal, Indian cinema’s Renaissance man

Miles de sirios celebran en Damasco en primer viernes de oraciones desde caída de Assad

Tell us: What smells remind you of L.A.?

¿Sigue siendo el Black Friday un coloso de las compras navideñas en 2024?

Save on Streaming With Our Peacock Promo Code

Rosenthal: The ‘Sinister Sling’ and the multitudes of Manny Machado

Blake Lively’s sister responds to fan comment about ‘negative voices’ amid backlash

Review: Well-intentioned ‘Rob Peace’ flattens out the complexity of a true story of race and fate

Green Day review, Old Trafford Manchester: Sonic flashbacks to pop-punk’s most defining and vindicating moments

A yoga story for International Yoga Day

Hitting the right notes: How protests have shaped our lives

New Music Friday: The best albums out June 7 : All Songs Considered

Chhetri bids an emotional goodbye

March, a busy month for places of religious worship in Chennai

ICYMI: Aussie horror Late Night with the Devil faces AI scandal, Heartbreak High returns and more

Length and breadth: On Rahul Gandhi and his yatras

The Boy and the Heron review: anime legend Hayao Miyazaki makes a grand, beautiful, tortured return

Review: Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ with a terrific Adam Driver, is a somber epic of doom and vroom

Majorette Dancing Is For Every Body, Period.

‘I saw brutality, but also solidarity,’ says Sudha Bharadwaj, author of From Phansi Yard, of her days in prison

Assam Chief Minister questions legitimacy of Gandhi surname of Indira and family

Free libraries are a big hope in need of policy support