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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘I'm close to being fired because I'm a woman’: Employee accuses company of gender discrimination

A woman shared a Reddit post claiming that she faced gender discrimination at her workplace. In her post, she expressed that her immediate boss told her that she might get fired because one of the company's co-owners “doesn’t like females” in roles traditionally associated with males. The co-owner of the factory is a very old man who is ‘old school’ …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Woman balances a bottle on her head while riding bicycle

Hindustan Times

A video of a woman's balancing act while riding a bicycle has stunned people on Reddit. The jaw dropping video is creating waves on the platform with many praising the woman or comparing how they fail at even the simplest balancing tasks. Take a look at this video of a woman balancing a bottle while writing a bicycle: Since being …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The 12 best moments from Taylor Swift’s opening night at SoFi Stadium

LA Times

Taylor Swift brought her blockbuster Eras tour to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium on Thursday night for the first of six sold-out concerts she’ll play through Aug. 9. “No Body, No Crime” The sisters of L.A.’s Haim opened Thursday’s show with a half-hour or so of raw yet crafty guitar rock. Later, they joined Swift onstage for a sly rendition of “No …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Jane Campion wins directing Oscar for ‘Power of the Dog’

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Jane Campion’s sabbatical from moviemaking left the respect and admiration of her peers undiminished. Campion, whose last feature film was 2009’s “Bright Star,” was honored as best director at Sunday’s Academy Awards for the unconventional Western “The Power of the Dog.” The 67-year-old filmmaker’s victory marks the first time the directing award has gone to women in …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Writing With Fire: Indian docu on female journalists lands Oscar nomination

Hindustan Times

Indian documentary feature Writing With Fire has made it to the final nominations list at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards. Jane Campion’s gothic western The Power of the Dog led nominations to the 94th Academy Awards, where streaming services more than ever before swept over Hollywood’s top honours. Campion’s film landed a leading 12 nominations, including nods for …

India Nomination Nominations Writing With Fire

4 years ago

A Gujarati literary legend finds a home in English

Live Mint

“The short story is not the miniature form of the novel. The short story, by rousing the imagination and emotions, only alludes to or provides a spark of whatever it wants to say.” These words, in the original Gujarati, appeared in the 1926 introduction to Tankha, the first collection of short stories by the Gujarati writer Dhumketu, the nom de …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Jan Morris died on November 20th

The Economist

Listen to this story. C ONSIDERING her life, as she most liked to, from the sprawling stone stables of Trefan Morys in north Wales among trees, owls and waters, Jan Morris divided it into three parts. He was still about: the little lad with his precious telescope already trained on the blue mountains of Wales, the Christ Church choirboy piping …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Porinju Mariam Jose movie review: Love in the time of class bias, an independent heroine and average writing

Firstpost

Language: Malayalam Porinju Mariam Jose is based on the folklore surrounding three reportedly real-life friends – Kaattaalan Porinju, Alappatt Mariam and Puthanpally Jose – who were plagued by class snobbery and street violence in 1980s Kerala. Porinju Mariam Jose could have been a comment on how class often trumps friendship, but also often does not. With such weak writing of …

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5 years, 10 months ago

The Hustle trailer: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson scheme to bring down rich men in upcoming comedy