An African American girl is desperate to tame her wild curls and get a hairdo that she has seen in a video tutorial. Why? The answer seems to have won Hair Love the Oscar for Best Animated Short film this year. The film has been directed by Matthew A Cherry, Everett Downing Jr and Bruce W Smith and features the voice of Issa Rae.
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FIR filed against ‘Alt News’ co-founder Mohammed Zubair for Tweet about Yati Narsinghanand
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Ola Electric shares plunge 9.4% after CEO Bhavish Aggarwal’s spat with comedian Kunal Kamra
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In a new book, Devdutt Pattanaik argues that the Harappan civilisation persists in our memories
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Nine lakh people in Assam were denied Aadhaar for years. It turned out to be a mistake
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Ramachandra Guha: Indians must hold our government to account for aiding Israel’s murderous Gaza war
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The 2024 Crossword Book Awards longlists of ten books each of five categories have been announced
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Why Adivasis in Jharkhand are agitating over MS Dhoni’s favourite temple
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‘Influenced by politics’: Why a Muslim man’s conviction for ‘love jihad’ is bad in law
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Kottukkaali’, a silence that speaks volumes
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Fiction: There’s a song at the heart of every short story in this book