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Ambiguity, arbitrariness and anxiety: Incoherent CAA rules will be twisted to suit political intent
The ruling BJP’s entire citizenship project remains vague but Assam’s experience is an indication of how the system will gamed to fulfil a grand objective.
Angshuman Choudhury
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A work in progress, helping others: Lessons from a course on happiness
Unless we keep working at it, the improvements are temporary.
Sarah Jelbert, The Conversation & Bruce Hood, The Conversation
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How do you get citizens to change their behaviour? Lesson’s from France’s ‘zero-waste’ push
Encouraging lifestyle changes, promoting financial savings and innovative awareness campaigns have yielded results. But there is still a long way to go.
Joseph Winters, The Human Journalism Network
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Mythological fiction: The Chendur battle has enervated Aambal. Will she find her way to words again?
An excerpt from ‘Theivanai: Murugan Trilogy Part 2’, by Kala Krishnan.
Kala Krishnan
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A psychiatrist’s book tells parents how they can help children have healthy gaming habits
An excerpt from ‘How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: Break Bad Screen Habits, End Power Struggles, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids’, by Alok Kanojia.
Alok Kanojia
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‘A storm in an ocean’: Hindustani vocalist Kumar Gandharva refused to be bound by orthodoxy
He exemplified the generative aspects of art well beyond narrowly construed genres.
Aditi Deo
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How ‘decolonial Hindutva’ marries nativist politics with left-wing vocabulary
Postcolonial populists are dressing up contemporary authoritarian politics as a project of decolonial liberation.
Kira Huju
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Earthquakes in India: The 2004 tsunami was not the first of its kind and certainly won’t be the last
An excerpt from ‘The Rumbling Earth: The Story of Indian Earthquakes’, by CP Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran.
CP Rajendran & Kusala Rajendran
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Start the week with a film: ‘Yannick’ is a comic take on trolls taking charge of art
Quentin Dupieux’s French-language movie is being streamed on MUBI.
Scroll Staff
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A brief history of Patanjali’s dangerous claims
From claiming to cure Covid to defying the Supreme Court, the ayurvedic company founded by yoga guru Ramdev has flouted the law several times.
Tabassum Barnagarwala
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A decade under Modi: Violence dips in Kashmir, turf lost to China and a civil war in Manipur
A quick look at how the Modi government fared on dealing with external threats and internal conflicts, and reforming the defence forces.
Arunabh Saikia & Safwat Zargar
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Wearable tech can give varying measures, but any exericse that keeps the heart pumping is good
High-intensity exercisers build muscle and improve insulin resistance and cardiovascular health similar to moderate-intensity exercisers but faster.
Jason Sawyer, The Conversation
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Hotels likely to return to Nepal’s national parks
The new regulation will open up protected areas that are the habitats of species such as tigers and rhinos.
Abhaya Raj Joshi
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‘Fear of Flying’: Erica Jong’s 1973 book has joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels
Jong was writing as second-wave feminism was in the ascendancy and her novel often reads like a feminist manifesto.
Kath Kenny, The Conversation
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‘Ma is Scared’: Anjali Kajal’s short stories step into the lives of ordinary women in northern India
The stories, selected and translated by Kavita Bhanot, represent a writing career spanning two and a half decades.
Areeb Ahmad
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Searching for solace: A requiem for Rizwan
The Ram bhajans of DV Paluskar that once provided comfort seem to have little relevance in today’s shrill Hindutva nation.
Rajendran Narayanan
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Ramachandra Guha: In Mizoram’s community spirit, many lessons for ‘mainland India’
The Mizos cherish the code of Tlawmmngaihna – ‘upholding humbleness in service… particularly [to] the needy, sick, disabled and widowed’.
Ramachandra Guha
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April in fiction: Beat the heat with these six new books by South Asian writers
New novels by Booker Prize-nominated Sunjeev Sahota and Neel Mukherjee, a hilarious family misadventures, a body horror short story collection, and more.
Sayari Debnath