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1 week, 3 days ago

Shalini Passi of ‘Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives’ speaks about fashion, fame, and art at Madras Art Weekend in Chennai

Shalini Passi is a vibe. Between answering calls, instructing her staff, sipping fresh juice, and getting ready for the inauguration of MAW, she says, “I was in Doha, I landed at 3am in Chennai.” But she is not complaining. She says she wants to showcase “an India that is hopeful, while showcasing craft and design of people rooted in tradition,” …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Strongman filmed lifting a Ford Transit van and pulled tractor with his bare hands while claiming car crash had left him unable to carry shopping bags in 'blatantly dishonest' insurance claim

Daily Mail

When champion strongman Scott Maw was hurt in a car crash, he told his GP he struggled carrying shopping bags. Six months after his crash, Scott Maw bagged the title of Yorkshire's Strongest Man, despite saying his injury problems persisted Maw claimed the crash left him 'restricted' in carrying shopping bags, doing DIY and 'getting in and out of the …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Extraordinary tale of California couple savaged by chimpanzees takes even more chilling turn

Daily Mail

St James and LaDonna Davis gained national attention in 2005 when the chimpanzee-loving couple was savagely attacked by two of the primates while visiting their cherished pet Moe at a ranch in California. St James brought orphaned chimpanzee Moe home from Tanzania, and the couple treated him more like a son than a wild animal LaDonna, left, and St James …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Report: The Madras Art Weekend 2023

Hindustan Times

The second edition of the Madras Art Weekend, held from November 29 to December 3, put the spotlight on the works of nearly 150 emerging and established artists, including two from abroad. These include MF Husain’s Two Women with Elephants, Ram Kumar’s The City, Krishen Khanna’s Ramu Kaa Dhaba, Jeram Patel’s Hospital series, the works of KCS Paniker, NN Rimzon’s …

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1 year ago

I’m not a liar, Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry

The Telegraph

Matt Hancock denied being a liar as he was put under pressure at the Covid Inquiry over his claims that he advised Boris Johnson to put the country into lockdown. Instead, he tried to deflect any blame on to Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s former chief adviser, and others, saying a “culture of fear” at the centre of government got in …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Final-hour rally yanks Wall Street from maw of bear market

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market Friday after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year. “Whether or not the S&P 500 closes in a bear market does not matter too much,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. …

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2 years, 11 months ago

‘Gold in the sea’: Brazil’s booming fish bladder trade

Al Jazeera

Amazon fishers are cashing in on a booming maw industry fuelled by Chinese demand, but the threat of overfishing looms. Bianca Bentes, a professor at the Federal University of Para’s Aquatic Ecology and Amazon Fisheries Centre, first came across the fish maw trade when she started researching fishing in the coastal regions in the mid-1990s. Soaring exports Dried fish maw …

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3 years, 9 months ago

When you are slowly swallowed by the maw of the internet

Live Mint

In 2013, American writer Patricia Lockwood was catapulted into overnight internet fame—or virality, as we now call it—after her shocking poem “Rape Joke” appeared online. Olivia Laing used it, recently, in Crudo, with a lot less success than Lockwood, and it goes back to pre-social media writers like Renata Adler. Last year, Jenny Offill published Weather, a novel narrated in …

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