‘People love the rich flavors, the bright colours, the exquisite taste, that reminds them of home,” says Musaib. In Kashmir, pickles belong to an inherited…
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Category: Culture
Masculinity’s IMPLOSION Haunts Adolescence
In Adolescence, Eddie’s father is not cruel. He is lost. He offers proximity, not intimacy. Love, not comprehension. This is not a crime story. It is…
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BOMBS TO BEAUTY: Every piece tells a story
What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now the remnants of conflict and…
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‘Dressing to kill could kill the planet’
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second,…
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The Catharsis of Caricature
If people can’t have catharsis using dissent and caricature, they are doomed to rot in a repressed state of permanent morbidity. If you can’t take…
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The place of beauty in the world, a world without beauty, what beauty does for and to us…
We may think of it simply as a resonant moment of ‘accord’. The accord between emotion and intellect, immediacy and timelessness, creature and creature, story…
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‘Gamble everything for love if you are a true human being’: Jalaluddin Rumi
‘Rumi advocates oneness of existence which leads to the cessation of hatred, and makes love inevitable. This message has never been as relevant as it…
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Our madmen… can crack open continents… like eggs
‘They had begun using ice-cream trucks to store bodies, bodies of children’ By Bharat Shekhar TO RETURN, ITEMS MUST BE IN THEIR ORIGINAL PACKING Having run…
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‘As a ‘Madrasi’ child, everything I heard around me sounded like ‘Hindi…’
Linguistically, in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and creative output, many Indian languages surpass Hindi easily. The literacy rates in mother tongues like Tamil, Malayalam, Bangla,…
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Saklain Yousuf’s ‘Kashmiri GPT’: A Revolutionary Step
Yousuf’s commitment to preserving and promoting the rich inheritance of Kashmiri language and culture through AI technology is a testament to the power of innovation…
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