Saurabh Sharma

India

Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Intl Award winning freelance journalist. I prefer staying on the road, with headphones on, hunting stories, countryside bars.

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Articles

Antibody-Free Immunopeptide Nano-Conjugates for Brain-Targeted Drug Delivery in Glioblastoma Multiforme

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | Saurabh Sharma |David Lee |Surjendu Maity |Prabhjeet Singh

AbstractGlioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) represents a significant clinical challenge amongst central nervous system (CNS) tumors, with a dismal mean survival rate of less than 8 months, a statistic that has remained largely unchanged for decades (National Brain Society, 2022).
‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems

1 month ago | scroll.in | Saurabh Sharma

“Poetry is a political action undertaken for the sake of information, the faith, the exorcism, and the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes possible. Poetry makes taking control of the language of your life. Good poems can interdict a suicide, rescue a love affair, and build a revolution in which speaking and listening to somebody becomes the first and last purpose to every social encounter,” noted the celebrated poet of the Black Arts Movement, June Jordon (1936–2002).
Best Fabrics For Thongs: Cotton, Lace, Or Seamless?

1 month ago | youthkiawaaz.com | Saurabh Sharma
More than 500 million take 'holy dip' in India's Maha Kumbh festival | Reuters

1 month ago | reuters.com | Saurabh Sharma

More than 500 million people have taken a "holy dip" in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part of the Hindu Maha Kumbh festival, authorities said on Friday, greater than the population of most countries.
Scars of the past | Review of Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars, longlisted for Booker Prize 2024

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Saurabh Sharma

“Kill the Indian, save the man” — that’s what Brigadier-General Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924), superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, meant by Americanising Native Indians. Under the garb of cultural assimilation, Pratt advised methods to “civilise” the “savage” Native Indians, a licensed cultural erasure supported by the American government. “More years at war with Indians than as a nation.
A tech-savvy Maha Kumbh: India aims for a safer religious festival | Reuters

Jan 22, 2025 | reuters.com | Saurabh Sharma |Tanvi Mehta

Inspired by stories of families separated among the millions celebrating the weeks-long Maha Kumbh Mela, old Bollywood films often featured plots in which siblings got lost at the Hindu festival and were only reunited decades later.
‘The Book of Exodus’: A rare novel about the meaning and meaninglessness of everyday living

Jan 18, 2025 | scroll.in | Saurabh Sharma

In his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s protagonist and narrator Saleem Sinai reflects: “I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
India's Maha Kumbh marks first 'royal bath' with dreadlocked ascetics' holy dip

Jan 13, 2025 | reuters.com | Saurabh Sharma

PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India on Tuesday, dreadlocks flying, during the first 'royal bath' of the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival. The 'royal bath' is a key part of the event, held every 12 years in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, significant because Hindus believe it confers salvation from the cycle of birth and death, in addition to absolution of sins.
Tens of thousands take holy dip in India as Maha Kumbh festival begins

Jan 12, 2025 | reuters.com | Saurabh Sharma

More than 2.5 million expected for first ritual dipDevout Hindus march praising Lord Shiva, Mother GangaPM Modi says festival is celebration of faith and harmonyPRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Hindus seeking absolution of their sins immersed themselves on Monday in freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers, as India began a six-week festival expected to draw the world's largest gathering of humanity.
India set for Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering of humanity

Jan 11, 2025 | reuters.com | Saurabh Sharma

More than 400 million people expected at Maha Kumbh Mela Hindu sacred event will be world's largest gathering of humanity Hindus believe taking dip in sacred river during kumbh brings salvation Temporary city built for visitors in Prayagraj for six weeks Festival is a mammoth logistics and crowd management exercise PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A six-week Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering...