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Apr 1, 2024 | 
brooklynrail.org | Hari Krishna Kaul
This month Archipelago Books publishes a collection of stories, For Now, It is Night, from Kashmiri writer Hari Krishna Kaul. Each story in the collection is punctuated with details of Kashmiri Hindu life. The sensations of reading Kaul are akin to those felt when watching the masters of slow-paced cinema, like Bresson or Bela Tarr.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
khabar.com | Shubnum Khan |Saadia Faruqi |Hari Krishna Kaul |Catherine Jones
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Achyuta Rajaram, aged 17, won first place in this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search. The high schooler from New Hampshire gets $250,000 for devising a method to discover which parts of a computer model that analyzes images are involved in decision-making. This could yield more effective algorithms.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Hari Krishna Kaul
The door was locked from the inside. I peered through the window slats and was startled. The room was dark, but a small ray of light from the porthole fell on the spot where my friend was tied to a post. A piece of cloth was stuffed into his mouth. His clothes were torn to shreds. As my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I observed other things. Two young men were searching the room. They were examining the floor, emptying the baskets, and breaking open the trunks.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
outlookindia.com | Hari Krishna Kaul |Bilal Wagay
For Now, It Is Night : Stories, Hari Krishna Kaul
Translated from Kashmiri by Kalpana Raina, Tanveer Ajsi, Gowhar Fazili, Gowhar Yaqoob
Published by HarperCollins India, 2023
In the somber pages of history, the Pandit exodus from the Kashmir Valley unfolds as more than a mere migration; it is a tale etched in the human spirit.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Tanvi Misra |Hari Krishna Kaul
Typically, Alex’s grandmother rose at five in the morning to start her household chores, but on this summer day in June 2013, she was up an hour earlier. She shook her eldest grandchild awake and handed over a black backpack filled with hygiene products and a single pair of shoes. Alex, she announced, was leaving for America.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Sam Russek |Maia Hibbett |Hari Krishna Kaul
Tim Dunn saw a problem. In fact, he saw several problems: as the CEO of CrownQuest, an oil and gas company in Midland, Texas, he worried about government interfering too much with business. As a devout evangelical Christian, he believed that state policies were straying too far from biblical precepts. In the early 2000s, Dunn joined a well-funded push to move on both fronts—by electing more conservative Republicans to public office.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Caroline Tracey |Rafia Zakaria |Hari Krishna Kaul
On an early morning this past January in Eagle Pass, Texas, a group of women were on their knees in a six-foot-deep hole, shoveling dirt into buckets. The sky was still dark, so floodlights illuminated their work. They were precise with their shovels, holding them vertically out in front of themselves and shaving away lines of soil, rather than shoving them downwards into the ground like most of us do when we dig.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Helen Epstein |Hari Krishna Kaul
In the early 1990s, I worked as a biochemist on an HIV vaccine research project in Uganda. My lab was in a ramshackle hospital in Kampala, then a dusty city of about a million people surrounded by forested hills a few miles north of Lake Victoria. Roughly one in seven Ugandan adults was HIV-positive, and there was still no treatment for AIDS. Everyone I met was affected by it.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Tim Schwab |Rafia Zakaria |Hari Krishna Kaul |Josef Burton
If you know the magician Derek DelGaudio, you know his famous card trick. As audience members make their way to their seats, they pick a card that compresses their identity into a single word or phrase. They might choose “I am a ninja” or “I am a freak” or “I am a nun.” DelGaudio produces high drama and wet eyes by guessing—or somehow knowing—who everyone is, especially when they take the opportunity to bear their souls.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Karen Olsson |Roshan Abraham |Hari Krishna Kaul |Josef Burton
In March, a friend texted me a link, along with an “omg” and a shedding-a-tear emoji, to a story from the Texas Tribune, a political news site. “Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff,” read the headline. The nonprofit board that oversees the Observer had decided to suspend operations because the magazine had run out of money, which was bewildering news to anyone who’d ever been involved with the Observer: Hadn’t it always been out of money?
