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Uttar Pradesh government to revise Madarsa Act, to exclude higher-level religious degrees
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Uttar Pradesh government to revise Madarsa Act, to exclude higher-level religious degrees

India Today  

The Uttar Pradesh government is set to revise the state's Madarsa Act, excluding higher-level education from its purview and restricting its coverage only to institutions offering education up to Class 12. The Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, is a legislative framework that regulates madarsa education in the state. SUPREME COURT ON MADARSA ACT Earlier in November, the …

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A Guy Had a Very Embarrassing Accident on Our Date. But … I Was Into It.
54 years, 11 months ago

A Guy Had a Very Embarrassing Accident on Our Date. But … I Was Into It.

Slate  

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Dear How to Do It, * Your letter signoff Your pronouns Your email Submit Jessica Stoya: So first, consider: If you bring it up now, yes, you’ll risk the relationship. It turns out that one of the things that people eroticize is that it’s like an entry into a forbidden world. …

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'The film is more optimistic than people consider': Why the poignant Kes is Britain's greatest coming-of-age story
1 month, 1 week ago

'The film is more optimistic than people consider': Why the poignant Kes is Britain's greatest coming-of-age story

BBC  

'The film is more optimistic than people consider': Why the poignant Kes is Britain's greatest coming-of-age story Alamy First released in November 1969, Ken Loach's social-realist tale of a boy who adopts a kestrel still resonates and has become a timeless classic of British cinema. They insisted that Kes was a film for everybody and that the "central image of …

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Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway
2 months, 1 week ago

Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. John has put this Shakespearian …

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"All love stories end in tragedy": "The Notebook" author Nicholas Sparks defines his genre
2 months, 2 weeks ago

"All love stories end in tragedy": "The Notebook" author Nicholas Sparks defines his genre

Salon  

Nicholas Sparks has a talent for making you weepy. Sparks's fans agree — a recent Goodreads review enthuses that "The snot bubbles were bubbling the entire time I was reading this book." To do that, I said, "Okay, the most well-known story about that is really the Book of Job," so that's where the title came from. There's a line …

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Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ may align with a scientific theory
3 months ago

Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ may align with a scientific theory

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. “I think this physical relationship must be embedded in his mind so that’s why when he made this famous ‘Starry …

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Australian Netflix series Videoland by Jessica Smith is a lesbian rom-com set in a 90s video shop
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Australian Netflix series Videoland by Jessica Smith is a lesbian rom-com set in a 90s video shop

ABC  

In the 90s, queer storylines were starting to break through into mainstream cinemas more frequently — from local heroes including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to overseas gems including Beautiful Thing, Bound and the wild ride of Gregg Araki movies. Queer filmmaker Jessica Smith evokes this frisson with the whirr of a tape that's faded at the …

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‘Pachinko’ returns: In conversation with showrunner Soo Hugh and actor Jin Ha
4 months ago

‘Pachinko’ returns: In conversation with showrunner Soo Hugh and actor Jin Ha

The Hindu  

Any time a book is adapted for the screen, debates and discussions are aplenty. For a book as celebrated and revered as Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, these questions have always loomed large over the TV series adaptation, which is now back for a second season. It seems rather befitting that we get to interview Soo Hugh, the showrunner, along with …

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Final finisher of women's marathon shows true Olympic spirit
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Final finisher of women's marathon shows true Olympic spirit

LA Times  

The original Olympic motto translates from Latin as “swifter, higher, stronger.” And those who live up to it are the ones who win gold medals and climb to the top step of the podium. “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win,” he said, “but to take part.” Kinzang Lhamo, a 26-year-old in the Royal Bhutan …

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From record Olympic ‘A’ cuts to Universality – why the ebb in Indian swimming
5 months, 2 weeks ago

From record Olympic ‘A’ cuts to Universality – why the ebb in Indian swimming

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru: Three years ago around this time, Sajan Prakash was riding a wave. Through it, one male and female swimmer – Srihari Nataraj, who also made the ‘A’ cut last time, and Dhinidhi Desinghu will represent India at the Paris Olympics in a couple of weeks’ time. “It’s definitely disappointing,” Sajan told HT, “We had a breakthrough last time with …

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At 14, Dhinidhi readies for an experience called Olympics
5 months, 3 weeks ago

At 14, Dhinidhi readies for an experience called Olympics

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: As a kid not even in her teens yet, Dhinidhi Desinghu remembers watching India’s top swimmer Srihari Nataraj compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on television. Dhinidhi plans to make handwritten gift cards and deliver them hopefully in person to her “childhood swim hero” and reigning 200m freestyle Olympic champion, Katie Ledecky of USA. “She happens to be …

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To cope with change
6 months, 1 week ago

To cope with change

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY Embedding ethics into climate health adaptation is essential to ensure that actions benefit and do not compromise future generations. These mechanisms, along with processes like Global Stocktaking, are instrumental in building climate change health adaptation capacities. Decision-makers can suppose they do not know their own circumstances for climate health funds — whether they represent a wealthy country …

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Paris 2024: Lebanon’s Hassan and Montenegro’s Kovinic awarded ‘Universality Places’ into Olympic Games
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris 2024: Lebanon’s Hassan and Montenegro’s Kovinic awarded ‘Universality Places’ into Olympic Games

The Hindu  

Benjamin Hassan and Danka Kovinic have been named as the first two tennis players confirmed to take part in the Paris Olympics after they were awarded ‘Universality Places’ into the men’s and women’s singles competitions, the International Tennis Federation said on Monday. Hassan will become the first tennis player from Lebanon to compete in the Olympics, while Montenegro’s Kovinic will …

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Lai's pursuit of 'independence' will hit a wall
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Lai's pursuit of 'independence' will hit a wall

China Daily  

Taipei 101 Tower, a landmark in Taipei, Taiwan, is seen in this photo. In his inauguration speech on May 20, Lai Ching-te, the new Taiwan island administrative head, used cunning language to hide his pro-independence stance only to expose his true color as a propagator of "Taiwan independence". Lai has refused to acknowledge the 1992 Consensus that there is only …

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Australian Olympic marathon runner Liam Adams believes qualification rules changed, leaving him out of Paris Games
7 months, 1 week ago

Australian Olympic marathon runner Liam Adams believes qualification rules changed, leaving him out of Paris Games

ABC  

Australian marathon runner Liam Adams has said he "was in complete shock" when he discovered he had not qualified for this year's Paris Olympic Games. However, the remaining spots have been given to "universality places" which is for athletes who come from "under-represented National Olympic Committees" according to the International Olympic Committee. "They are designed to increase the diversity of …

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'The Familiar' is a romance, coming-of-age tale, and a story about fighting for more
8 months, 2 weeks ago

'The Familiar' is a romance, coming-of-age tale, and a story about fighting for more

NPR  

'The Familiar' is a romance, coming-of-age tale, and a story about fighting for more Enlarge this image Flatiron Books Flatiron Books Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar is an entertaining slice of speculative fiction wrapped in historical fiction and delivered with heavy doses of magic and wit. When Luzia's mistress discovers her servant can perform "milagritos," she sees it as the perfect …

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Experts' take on democracy
9 months, 1 week ago

Experts' take on democracy

China Daily  

Editor's note: The so-called Summit for Democracy, being held in Seoul from Monday to Wednesday, will create divisions in the global community because, instead of advancing the principles of democracy and working for the emancipation of humankind, it aims to build power blocs against certain countries. XUEJING/CHINA DAILY China a true upholder of freedom By Muhammad Asif Noor Seoul will …

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China a true upholder of freedom
9 months, 1 week ago

China a true upholder of freedom

China Daily  

XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Seoul will host the third Summit for Democracy, themed "Democracy for Future Generations", from Monday to Wednesday where political leaders, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and civil society and youth organizations from across the world are expected to participate. "Whole-process people's democracy" is a form of democracy which, despite being different from Western-style democracy, suits China's …

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Experts' take on democracy
9 months, 1 week ago

Experts' take on democracy

China Daily  

Editor's note: The so-called Summit for Democracy, being held in Seoul from Monday to Wednesday, will create divisions in the global community because, instead of advancing the principles of democracy and working for the emancipation of humankind, it aims to build power blocs against certain countries. XUEJING/CHINA DAILY China a true upholder of freedom By Muhammad Asif Noor Seoul will …

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China a true upholder of freedom
9 months, 1 week ago

China a true upholder of freedom

China Daily  

XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Seoul will host the third Summit for Democracy, themed "Democracy for Future Generations", from Monday to Wednesday where political leaders, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and civil society and youth organizations from across the world are expected to participate. "Whole-process people's democracy" is a form of democracy which, despite being different from Western-style democracy, suits China's …

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Ego tripping: Why do psychedelics "enlighten" some people — and make others giant narcissists?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ego tripping: Why do psychedelics "enlighten" some people — and make others giant narcissists?

Salon  

In the 1968 counterculture classic “Wild in the Streets,” a musician in his early 20s petitions to lower the voting age in the United States to 14. “I think sometimes when people talk about ego death, maybe what they're referring to is what you might call total ego dissolution: a state of consciousness in which there is no experiential sense …

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Pacquiao’s Paris 2024 Olympics boxing bid knocked out: official
10 months ago

Pacquiao’s Paris 2024 Olympics boxing bid knocked out: official

The Hindu  

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao’s bid to fight at the Paris 2024 Games has been rejected by the International Olympic Committee, a Filipino official said on Sunday. Manila had made a “special request” to the IOC last year seeking permission for the former world champion in multiple weight divisions, to box in Paris despite a rule setting the age limit for …

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Sean Roldan give Vallalar’s verses a contemporary twist
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Sean Roldan give Vallalar’s verses a contemporary twist

The Hindu  

Other than the occasional Thiruvarutpa songs in Carnatic concerts and devotional events, the poetry of the 19th century Tamil saint Vallalar is not used in mainstream music. A classical heavy-weight shedding his Carnatic skin and segueing into Rock, Jazz and Blues to render ancient Tamil text is certainly unusual; but Sanjay does it with felicity in collaboration with composer Sean …

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Korean food traditions go much deeper than barbecue — and this chef is on a mission to preserve them
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Korean food traditions go much deeper than barbecue — and this chef is on a mission to preserve them

Salon  

On a very warm evening a few years ago, I walked into a cool, brisk, minimalist restaurant with heavy, wide wooden doors, sitting down at a relatively tiny table with nothing on it. While many Americans may automatically think of Korean barbecue when the notion of Korean food comes up, or other staples like bulgogi, Korean fried chicken or tteokbokki, …

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