Soma Basu
Journalist at The Hindu
@TheHindu. Studied @UnivofDelhi @IIMC_India @thomfound @Laadli_PF winner. Climate change, Health, Women Child Safety, Travel, Books. RTs not endorsements
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Soma Basu
After the success of Battle of Bands India round, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, has now opened the event to international bands who can register and showcase their skills in playing and singing Hindi songs, from Bollywood to classical ragas to traditional folk. Interested music groups are required to submit a video of maximum two minutes in MP4 format containing an original piece of music and lyrics composed by them in Hindi.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Soma Basu
The 82-year-old Swedish multinational furniture company and home furnishings retailer, IKEA, had studied Delhi’s diversity and consumer behaviour for the past four years before stepping in with e-commerce from March 1. North India is the country’s largest home furnishing market.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Soma Basu
Under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and expression, citizens have the right to dissent. But throughout Indian history, jails have bulged with political dissenters. Dissent is not just about anger, but about having a rival articulation of the world, argues American historian Timothy Snyder.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | Soma Basu
Imagine a class full of children in rural Punjab singing their own version of ‘Kolaveri Di’ in classical Punjabi. “It is possible because they learnt the original Tamil song and its meaning without stress, and understood the song’s essence and its elongated drags to be able to produce their own version,” says British educator Claire Horsburgh.
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2 months ago |
thehindu.com | Soma Basu
Neerja Chandna Peters, a self-taught artist, gave up her career in medicine to explore the world of abstractionism with colours and fine lines drawn to accurate mathematical measurements. “It is in this world of creating expressions that I find my peace and joy,” she says. Art, says Neerja, became her way of life as she got deeply invested in the process of ideating forms with geometric symbolisms.
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