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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meeting of mundane motors: 1982 Toyota Hilux crowned best car at Festival of the Unexceptional

When most petrolheads hear the words 'car show', they think of gatherings of ultra-rare classics worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and displays of exotic supercars. It is designed to celebrate long-forgotten everyday family cars many of us would have owned during the 1970s to 1990s, including cars like 1982 Vauxhall Cavaliers Some 2,000 once-popular vehicles from the 'unexceptional era' …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Level Cross' movie review: Oscillates between the outlandish and the mundane

New Indian Express

As Chaithali tries to escape the endlessly undulating sands of the Sahara in Arfaz Ayub’s debut feature Level Cross, one might think this film would be a survival thriller, but it is far from that. Set in an imaginary world, as the director wants us to believe with its unlikely proceedings, Level Cross first establishes the limitlessness of the scarcely …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

A mundane wishlist for Modi 3.0

New Indian Express

With the cacophony of the elections settled, the Modi-led NDA has started its third stint and second decade in power. Let me take this opportunity to ask for some mundane things that seem to have been missed in plain sight, but would give instant relief to a large section of common Indian citizens. As a small website owner, I ensure …

Mundane Wishlist

8 months ago

Election symbols: Candidates choose from mundane to the unusual ones

The Hindu

April 20, 2024 05:00 pm | Updated May 01, 2024 06:52 am IST - Bengaluru Fruits and vegetables, household items, kitchen utensils, computers, air-conditioners, refrigerators, televisions and CCTV cameras. These are some of the election symbols chosen by candidates in the two-phase Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka. These symbols are for independent candidates and aspirants from registered political parties that …

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9 months ago

Rise in Mundane Dating, reveals Bumble study

Deccan Chronicle

Grand plans and elaborate dates seem to be on the way out as single Indians look to everyday dates and find love in the mundane. Bumble, the popular dating app, reveals the growing popularity of a new dating trend ‘Mundane Dating’ as 74% of single Indians surveyed say they are choosing more mundane dates over fancy, elaborate ones. According to …

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9 months ago

Finding love in the mundane

Live Mint

It will take about five minutes of scrolling on most dating apps to realise that quite a few people are looking for someone to “go on walks with”, “cook some good food with”, or “watch cringe Instagram reels with”—simple, ordinary joys of everyday life. This is reiterated by a new study by dating app Bumble, which shows that 74% of …

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1 year ago

A new novel explores the poetic and mundane of life in space

NPR

A new novel explores the poetic and mundane of life in space NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space from the perspective of an international space station. HARVEY: And that seems to be a really common theme - that there's a sense of one's senses and …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Sedona, epicenter of spiritual energy, is struggling with mundane issues common in less wondrous places

LA Times

You’d think that a town dependent on tourist dollars would never stop advertising itself. Without such destination marketing, he wrote, “Sedona has been beset by day travelers from Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas, and Californian overnighters who roll into town with little guidance on where to stay, eat, shop or explore other than what they saw on Instagram.” One of …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Ever Googled ‘How to ace interview at Google’? CEO Sundar Pichai did too, among other mundane things

Firstpost

Like most of us, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google has asked the search engine the most mundane and bizarre things. These include that one question almost all of us have asked Google once - how to crack an interview at Google As Google celebrated its 25th anniversary, CEO Sundar Pichai took a moment to reflect on the evolution of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

10 words that will make you sound like an English native

India Today

Language is a powerful tool that can transform the mundane into the extraordinary, the simple into the profound. Mundane-Prosaic: While "mundane" merely denotes the everyday and ordinary, the word "prosaic" carries an air of intellectualism, suggesting a deeper understanding of the world around us. Interesting-Fascinating: While "interesting" is perfectly serviceable, "fascinating" implies a deeper level of engagement and intrigue, painting …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How Octavia Butler found joy in the mundane daily experience of being outdoors

LA Times

A wild peafowl, photographed last year in South Pasadena, is one of nature’s many winged or leafy inhabitants you may encounter if you follow in the footsteps of science fiction author Octavia Butler around the Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods where she lived. On her walks and bus rides, Butler took careful note of the cornucopia of L.A. flora and fauna, …

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2 years ago

‘Sadness metamorphoses into melancholy that is crucial to creativity’: Poet Mukul Kumar

The Hindu

Not for him the meadows and the prairies, the daffodils and the lilies. And creation is beautiful, and that’s why I write in my blurb, quoting Oscar Wilde, that an artist is the creator of beautiful things; beauty breeds pleasure. Eliot aptly says, ‘The man who suffers is different from the artist who creates’.” Talking of Oscar Wilde and TS …

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2 years, 4 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times

Personal accounts of sudden trauma The list of interesting reads this week includes a book on the forgotten aspects of the Sindhi experience of Partition, short fiction about the mundane aspects of life, and stories from Hindu traditions and gurus that deal with pain and loss 112pp, ₹650; B&W Fountain Sindh 1947. * On the mundane aspects of everyday life …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Natasha Lyonne Reveals She And Fred Armisen Broke Up For The Most Mundane Reason

Huff Post

Come on in, the water is extremely unrelatable: Natasha Lyonne has confirmed that she and Fred Armisen split up after eight years together over a disagreement about a swimming pool. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the highly anticipated return of her Netflix series “Russian Doll,” Lyonne addressed whether she was currently based in Los Angeles. “We love each …

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2 years, 9 months ago

The Mundane Steps That Keep Vietnam’s Dissidents Quiet

The Diplomat

On a rainy morning in September 2018, in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, I arranged to meet with Nguyen Quang A, an outspoken Vietnamese dissident intellectual. Nguyen Quang A’s treatment is consistent with the findings of a new report from the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, which documents the Vietnamese government’s “routine violation of the right to freedom of movement and …

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4 years ago

Finding music in the mundane on the balcony

Live Mint

As days turn into nights and then further fold themselves into exactly similar looking more sets of days, I sit in my room in this new house in south Delhi, a rented accommodation, staring at my laptop, while zoning out boldly. Inside this place, amidst the knotty terrain, I amble, hazily drifting, from one isolated corner to another when a …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Bhaag Beanie Bhaag trailer: Swara Bhasker escapes mundane life to become a stand-up comic in Netflix show

Firstpost

The trailer of Bhaag Beanie Bhaag season one, with Swara Bhasker released today. She faces rejection onstage, but is told by Ravi Patel’s character: “Real comics, they get right back up there!” Dolly Singh, Mona Ambegaonkar, and Girish Kulkarni also make an appearance in the trailer. Watch the trailer here The storyline of Bhaag Beanie Bhaag seems similar to Amazon …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Sweden's 'Anonymouse' Miniature Art Graces Mundane Dorms, Restaurants

News 18

They’re drawing crowds in Sweden: cute and quirky shopfronts, delis and restaurants created by a mystery art collective called “Anonymouse” that have popped up out of nowhere in some cities. “It’s like a treasure hunt,” 29-year-old Madeleine tells AFP in Lund, a picturesque university town in the south of the Nordic country where the collective’s latest works are on display. …

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