Nivriti Butalia
Assistant Comment Editor at The National
Delhi girl in Dubai. Likes gardens, gnomes and staring back at cats. Assistant comment editor @TheNationalNews
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1 month ago |
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Nasa astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station last September. APThey’re back on Earth, but what Nasa astronauts went through still leaves me star-struck
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Sustained noise pollution can add to stress, disturb sleep and even cause cardiovascular problems. Getty ImagesSustained noise pollution can add to stress, disturb sleep and even cause cardiovascular problems. Getty ImagesThe world is getting noisier, here's how I try to shut it all out
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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More than a few people would have been stunned when they heard about four members of Britain's wealthiest family, the Hindujas, being convicted in a Swiss criminal court last Friday of exploiting domestic staff brought over from India to work at their Geneva villa. During the trial, the four were accused of paying workers about a tenth of their entitlement under Swiss law, confiscating their passports and making them work 18-hour shifts with no days off.
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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What makes a city great? It's one of those eternal questions to which easy answers abound, and yet it is one that deserves deeper reflection. Fountains are nice. Public squares, lovely. Who doesn't like glorious, clean public transport systems and trains? Cycle tracks. Trees, lots of them, many different kinds – frangipani, orange-blossom, eucalyptus, native species. The shopping, all sorts. Supermarkets, the large ones with endless aisles of biscuits from all over the world. Parks. Places to walk around.
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Jan 8, 2024 |
thenationalnews.com | Nivriti Butalia
You can learn a lot about a city by observing what makes it tick and why residents behave in the ways they do or refuse to do – sticking to one side of the escalator, avoiding littering, recycling and so on. From a city like Vienna, there's much to learn, quite apart from how it managed affordable housing, built great public transport and made generally top-notch hot chocolate common fare. But an especially sound habit – encouraged by policy – is repairing things.
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