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…if the government lets film festivals decide what movies they can show Long ago, on October 19, 1980, people in Delhi could walk into a big hall called Vigyan Bhawan and watch an old, famous movie called The Battleship Potemkin. The ticket cost just ₹2, about the price of a loaf of bread back then….

Narayani Ganesh A 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 – popularly known as ‘God’s influencer’ and the ‘Patron Saint of the Internet’ – used digital media to promote Catholicism. A website he created documented Eucharistic miracles recognised by the church. With its finger on the pulse of the digital world, the Vatican,…

How to secure rights for gig workers – with no single employer, fixed hours of work, or common workplace? Karnataka gets a new law whose foundation was laid over 50 years ago by a young doctor Karnataka’s legislation for gig workers kicked in in November, mere weeks before the man who built the timeless foundation…

Stakes are high, but Mumbai’s civic polls are touch-and-go for both coalitions. Allies’ hyperlocal networks and organisational depth may decide the battle Ahead of BMC polls, cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray have united on the platform of Marathi asmita (pride) – at stake is the Thackeray political legacy. The two face NDA, the BJP-Shinde Sena…

We work, we stay up late having fun, then we work again. We push our bodies hard. But our bodies are not machines that can adjust forever. On school or work days, you wake up to a loud alarm. On weekends, you sleep very late. It feels great. But your body may not agree. On…

Parts of speech are dumbfounded  A visitor tells a boy who answers the door that he’s come to meet his mother, and gets the sullen reply, ‘She was in, she is  out!’ The aghast man says, ‘Young man, where’s your grammar?!’ To which the lad points upstairs and says, ‘She’s takin’ a nap.’ This old…

We work, we have fun late into night, work again…and stress out our bodies. We aren’t infinitely adaptable  On weekdays, you wake up to a shrill alarm. On weekends, you sleep in late. This is… Source link

Commission should have empathy for those incorrectly excluded from voter rolls in Bengal & other states Almost 8% of Bengal’s voter roll of Jan 2025 has been excluded in the new draft rolls post-SIR. Lists uploaded include those dead, duplicate, permanently shifted, absent and/or ‘uncollectable’. Two reasons for the removal of over 58L such names…

Rahu is inclined to enlighten with the sheer playfulness of senses. Ketu necessitates abstinence and control over the senses. Astrologically, for Rahu to enlighten, it has to be powerful, but Ketu needs to be feeble. Rahu takes the path where senses no longer make any sense. Ketu makes sense meaningless. For Rahu, there are no…

For the first time in many decades, the world’s major economies are no longer moving in even approximate synchrony. Economic gravity itself appears fractured. Inflation grips the United States while deflation shadows China. Europe struggles with anaemic growth while India accelerates with rare momentum. Silicon Valley pours trillions into frontier technologies even as entire societies…