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Dec 7, 2024 | 
deccanchronicle.com | Shuma Raha
On Boxing Day 2022, British novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi had a fall in Rome which left him almost entirely paralysed. His mind was as alert as ever but his body felt “divorced” from himself, unable to perform the simplest of functions. It was unclear when he would be able to walk again or hold a pen.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Shuma Raha
17 hours agoThe 25 Best Gifts On Sale To Grab Now—Before They’re Gone For GoodGift-giving season is officially in full swing and if you’re looking to find the very best presents for everyone on your list, this is the week to shop.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Shuma Raha
Part of the reason for Mamata’s continued winning streak is the absence of any viable Opposition parties in Bengal. Those who were writing Mamata Banerjee’s political obituary after the massive street protests in the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August this year, are doubtless astonished by the results of the bypolls in West Bengal.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
deccanchronicle.com | Shuma Raha
Shashi Tharoor, author, former diplomat, long-serving parliamentarian, is known as much for his distinguished public life as he is for his often arcane vocabulary. In 2018 he famously tweeted that his book on Narendra Modi, “The Paradoxical Prime Minister is more than just a 500-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification’’. That eye-watering word, which made people run to their dictionaries, means an act of estimating something or someone as worthless.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Shuma Raha |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh
The civil war in Sri Lanka, which began in 1983 and lasted for nearly three decades, killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, and convulsed the island nation for a generation.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | a Watch |Shuma Raha
On Sunday, actor and producer Siddique resigned from his post as general secretary of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA). Within hours, noted Malayalam filmmaker Ranjith stepped down as chairman of the Kerala Chalachitra Academy. Both men resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault which came up against them in the wake of the explosive revelations of the Justice Hema Committee Report.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Shuma Raha
Will Mamata's Terrible Handling of the RG Kar Rape and Murder Seal Her Fate? There is an almost hysterical irrationality to the Chief Minister's utterances now. India commemorates the midnight of 15 August as a proud and sacred …
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Shuma Raha
There is an almost hysterical irrationality to the chief minister's utterances now. India commemorates the midnight of 15 August as a proud and sacred moment, a moment when the country won its freedom in 1947. This year, at that hour, the state of West Bengal showed how far it had travelled from that moment of hope and idealism.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Manu Bhaker |Shuma Raha
US Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance's 2021 comment about "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made'' has set the cat among the pigeons. Well, not so much among pigeons, but certainly among a lot of women who have come out breathing fire that he dared to make such a disparaging remark about women who do not have children.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
deccanchronicle.com | Shuma Raha
Sometimes quirky, sometimes philosophical, almost always witty, In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays by the journalist and author Indrajit Hazra is an off-beat lollapalooza that offers many wonders. The writer’s penchant for word play, his fascination with words and their etymology, his wide-ranging scholarship which sparks through his ideas and propositions that are both serious and frivolous, pack quite a punch.
