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Articles for Fragility

A poetic reflection of the fragility of the body
2 weeks ago

A poetic reflection of the fragility of the body

Live Mint  

Yardena Kurulkar’s current exhibition, The Body in Agreement, at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, is an attempt to further her ongoing personal examination into the human body and its relationship with nature. After her initial training in ceramics, the artist’s practice has been multidisciplinary and is expressed here through multi-layered etchings, video projections, 3D printed works, composite sculptures made of clay, …

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Russia: Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Russia: Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule

CNN  

CNN — The world now knows the colors of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s parachute: the Russian tricolor. The fall of the House of Assad deals a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aspirations as a Middle East power broker – and raises new questions about the fragility of his own regime. “Putin has thrown Assad under the bus to …

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Avtar Singh’s Into the Forest: An Exploration of Isolation, Loneliness, and Human Fragility During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Avtar Singh’s Into the Forest: An Exploration of Isolation, Loneliness, and Human Fragility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 06, 2024 19:53 IST - 5 MINS READ There is a moment in Avtar Singh’s new novel, Into the Forest, that does not directly engage with the COVID-19 pandemic but makes you think long and hard about those scary days and nights in 2020 and 2021. Now he can lock his door to me, and a ritual …

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‘Fragility and Resilience’: Ayesha Sultana's first comprehensive solo in the GCC
2 weeks, 5 days ago

‘Fragility and Resilience’: Ayesha Sultana's first comprehensive solo in the GCC

Live Mint  

The pauses that Ayesha Sultana takes during a conversation are just as significant as the works she creates. These brief silences offer opportune moments for the viewer or listener to understand the workings of the artist’s mind, and to soak in the conceptual subtlety of the abstract works that she creates. Sultana is now showing at her first comprehensive solo …

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Finance Ministry ‘cautiously optimistic’ on India’s economic outlook; geopolitical fragility remains a concern
4 weeks ago

Finance Ministry ‘cautiously optimistic’ on India’s economic outlook; geopolitical fragility remains a concern

Live Mint  

India's economic outlook for the coming months will be ‘cautiously optimistic’, with the agriculture sector benefiting from favourable monsoon conditions, according to the Monthly Economic Review for October 2024 released by the Ministry of Finance's Department of Economic Affairs. “Moving forward, India's economic outlook for the coming months is cautiously optimistic, with agriculture likely to benefit from favourable monsoon conditions, …

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Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology
5 months ago

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology

New Indian Express  

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. But all it took was one faulty CrowdStrike software update to cause global disruptions Friday that grounded flights, knocked banks and media outlets offline, and disrupted hospitals, retailers and other services. “This is a function of …

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Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology
5 months ago

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology

Associated Press  

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches. “What really causes this mess is that we rely on very few companies, and everybody uses the same folks, so everyone goes down at the same time.” The trouble with the update issued by CrowdStrike and …

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Red Sea events exposed ‘fragility of existing connectivity’: Jaishankar
10 months ago

Red Sea events exposed ‘fragility of existing connectivity’: Jaishankar

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Events in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden following the Israel-Hamas conflict have exposed the “fragility of existing connectivity” arrangements and the world needs multiple trade corridors with in-built resilience, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. Jaishankar, who was speaking at the inaugural session of an India-Europe business conclave, took a veiled swipe at China’s …

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Patralekha Chatterjee | India@2024: A portrait of power and fragility
10 months, 1 week ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | India@2024: A portrait of power and fragility

Deccan Chronicle  

At a time when the ruling BJP spares no effort in telling us why Bharat matters, heavy security has been deployed to stop thousands of farmers of the same Bharat from entering the nation’s capital to renew their demands for assured crop prices. Sauntering around Delhi’s Lodhi Estate earlier this week, past the India International Centre, where Delhi’s well-connected gather, …

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Idaho's public university DEI bloat EXPOSED: State triples spending to $6M on courses about 'white fragility' and 'toxic masculinity,' paying tribal expert Yolanda Bisbee $170,706 a year
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Idaho's public university DEI bloat EXPOSED: State triples spending to $6M on courses about 'white fragility' and 'toxic masculinity,' paying tribal expert Yolanda Bisbee $170,706 a year

Daily Mail  

Idaho public universities have ramped up spending to $6 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and teaching students about 'white fragility' and 'toxic masculinity,' a damning new report shows. Boise State University has seen colorful protests in recent years as it ramped up spending on DEI Yolanda Bisbee earns $170,706 per year as chief diversity officer at the University …

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Catalan separatists reject amnesty bill, highlighting the fragility of Spain’s minority government
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Catalan separatists reject amnesty bill, highlighting the fragility of Spain’s minority government

Associated Press  

MADRID — Catalan separatist lawmakers dealt Spain’s government a blow Tuesday by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters who were involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agreed to the law in exchange for the parliamentary support of two small Catalan separatist parties, which enabled …

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Renewed violence in Sierra Leone is a sign of fragility, polarisation
1 year ago

Renewed violence in Sierra Leone is a sign of fragility, polarisation

Al Jazeera  

Two decades after the end of its deadly civil war, Sierra Leone is once again teetering on the precipice of conflict. The armed attack on November 26 was the second “coup attempt” Sierra Leone witnessed in the five months since the contentious June 2023 presidential election in which President Bio narrowly avoided a run-off. The main opposition All People’s Congress …

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Opinion: Usher, Keke Palmer And The Era Of Peak Male Fragility
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Usher, Keke Palmer And The Era Of Peak Male Fragility

Huff Post  

Keke Palmer’s baby’s father learned the consequences of bringing relationship mess to the public for no good damn reason. Social media was quick to remind him that Palmer was out in public three-quarters naked before he ever impregnated her and that giving birth shouldn’t relegate any woman ― let alone one younger than 30 ― to a life of wearing …

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Communal violence in Nuh brings the fragility of the BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana to the fore
1 year, 4 months ago

Communal violence in Nuh brings the fragility of the BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana to the fore

The Hindu  

Signs of a rift between the ruling alliance partners in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janta Party and the Jannayak Janta Party, have been cropping up from time to time. The recent dig by Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala over the handling of the situation surrounding the violence that began in the State’s Nuh district is yet another example of it. Mr. …

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Barbie is everything but she's not anti-Ken, just about male fragility and patriarchy
1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie is everything but she's not anti-Ken, just about male fragility and patriarchy

Hindustan Times  

Before the lights dimmed inside the theatre for Barbie, I saw a group of boys hop on to their seats in the row just ahead of mine. The venture into the Real World is a pragmatic narrative decision; where Gerwig's script, co-written with partner Noah Baumbach, is conscious of the play of contrasts. From here on, Gerwig does more telling …

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‘Oppenheimer’ review: The fragility of an atomic bomb
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Oppenheimer’ review: The fragility of an atomic bomb

Live Mint  

Oppenheimer opens with a minute of silence, and then the chatter begins. No wonder Oppenheimer, called in for congratulations by President Truman after Japan’s surrender, says: “I have blood on my hands.” Oppenheimer is a restless, incessantly mobile film. I admire the film’s resolve to be about something more than the bomb, tying Oppenheimer’s increasing political troubles to McCarthyism, Cold …

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Western Ghats lost 5% evergreen forest cover, shows analysis
1 year, 5 months ago

Western Ghats lost 5% evergreen forest cover, shows analysis

The Hindu  

The Western Ghats, which is among 36 global biodiversity hotspots, saw a loss of 5% evergreen forest cover with an increase of 4.5% built-up cover, and 9% agriculture area, according to the spatiotemporal analyses of land use, highlighting anthropogenic induced developmental thrust. These revelations come from the Indian Institute of Science’s Energy and Wetlands Research Group launched the Western Ghats …

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Ukraine says Wagner’s mutiny proves Putin’s real fragility
1 year, 5 months ago

Ukraine says Wagner’s mutiny proves Putin’s real fragility

The Independent  

The silence is deafening. In them, the chief of Wagner Group, a powerful private military company, blamed the Russian Ministry of Defence for bombing his troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. As one top official put it to me: “The future of Russia changed dramatically in one day, there is a new security world order.” The fear of Mr Putin …

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India at 75 | The fragility of the Northeast’s integration
2 years, 4 months ago

India at 75 | The fragility of the Northeast’s integration

The Hindu  

The integration of Northeast India into mainstream Indian life has been on the national agenda from the very start of India’s journey as an independent nation. ‘Excluded’ areas The British had also considered leaving this “Mongolian Fringe” — a term British India Foreign Secretary Olaf Caroe coined in a paper in 1940 — as a Crown Colony. The Governor of …

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Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play
2 years, 7 months ago

Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play

LA Times  

If you were to cast your fantasy production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” would Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto be your first, second or even third contenders to play Martha and George? A feeling of pantomime occasionally haunts this staging of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — as though the performers were trying on Albee’s classic for …

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Jon Stewart says the 'fragility of leaders' is the real threat to humor
2 years, 7 months ago

Jon Stewart says the 'fragility of leaders' is the real threat to humor

NPR  

Jon Stewart says the 'fragility of leaders' is the real threat to humor Enlarge this image toggle caption Scott Suchman/The Kennedy Center Scott Suchman/The Kennedy Center Mark Twain once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Sponsor Message As one of the correspondents on The Daily Show, Steve Carrell told of an early assignment, "to …

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The fragility of contemporary capitalism
2 years, 9 months ago

The fragility of contemporary capitalism

The Hindu  

While the world remains preoccupied with the geopolitical and humanitarian fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its economic consequences are increasingly a matter for concern. Although the two countries at war account for barely 2.5 per cent of the world’s population, it emerges that the damage to production within their boundaries and the suspension of their trading relationship with …

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Developing countries face growing risks from financial fragility: World Bank
2 years, 10 months ago

Developing countries face growing risks from financial fragility: World Bank

India TV News  

Highlights Developing countries face growing risks from financial fragility created by Covid crisis World Bank urged policymakers to focus on creating healthier financial sectors WB chief said it's critical to work toward broad-based access to growth-oriented capital allocation Developing countries face growing risks from financial fragility created by the Covid-19 crisis and non-transparent debt, the World Bank has said in …

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A new show looks at the fragility of ties that bind us
3 years, 1 month ago

A new show looks at the fragility of ties that bind us

Live Mint  

In early 2020, just before the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, Gallery Threshold in Delhi hosted a deeply reflective show. Raina used this story to reflect on ways in which the “broken” created a new lens of viewing oneself, “It is from the broken that the whole is made,” was the thought behind it. We try to hang on, hold …

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