At 25, Prithibi continues to reinvent Bengali rock

The new line-up of Prithibi includes Debasish Paul as drummer, alongside Koushik Chakraborty, Deep Ghosh, Debangshu Bhattacharjee and Deepayan Maitra A quarter century later, Prithibi isn’t pausing to look back so much as it is taking stock mid-motion. In a music landscape now crowded with quick covers and shorter attention spans, the band’s 25-year run…

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Nomenculture

Every society and community has its own naming conventions. Govt shouldn’t impose its view All the Bablus out there — Wednesday wasn’t your day. You woke up to news that your name is “negative” and “flawed”. At least, that’s what the Rajasthan government seems to think. The same goes for all the Chhotus — not…

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Lucknow inferno: Bodies of 2 minors recovered at dawn; over 1,000 left homeless | Lucknow News

LUCKNOW: Bodies of two minor girls were recovered during an early morning search operation on Thursday, hours after a devastating fire razed over 280 shanties in Sector 11 of Vikas Nagar on Wednesday evening.The deceased were identified as Shruti (2) and her two-month-old sister, daughters of Satish, a resident of Kashipurwa village in Barabanki district….

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Tata Trusts board ‘illegal’, replace it: Mehli Mistry

MUMBAI: Mehli Mistry has accused Tata Trusts leadership of running an “illegal” board by selectively applying rules to secure their own lifetime trusteeships while removing him. He has accused them of counting votes of trustees whose tenures had expired and violating statutory provisions for appointments and terms.Mistry, who was a trustee of Sir Dorabji Tata…

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