Movie Anniversary
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‘Chak De! India’: Taking women’s hockey (and sports films) from ‘nowhere to somewhere’
Director Shimit Amin and writer Jaideep Sahni look back on its relevance and legacy.
Aakash Karkare
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What was the chance of Ferris Bueller being caught on his day off? This academic has the answer
We can use a neat mathematical tool known as the ‘random walk’ to answer this question by modelling a day off in a city.
Martin Archer, The Conversation
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The hills are alive – with the sound of sitars
In 1967, two years after the Sound of Music took the world by storm, an Indian musician released a record of some of the best-known songs from the soundtrack performed on the sitar.
Scroll Staff
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language