Travel Travails
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Americans are eager to see the world as Covid curbs ease – but passport delays are posing a hurdle
The US State Department says it can take up to 13 weeks for it to process passport applications.
Jay L Zagorsky, The Conversation
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Getting an Indian passport has always involved red tape, as files from the archives show
Leafing through the British Library’s Kashmir Residency Records.
John O’Brien
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Bad design: The Mumbai local train is the city’s lifeline. Why is the network so difficult to use?
These local trains carry more people in a week than the entire population of Spain. Shouldn't the signs be designed better?
Dwarkanath Prabhu
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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For flyers with disabilities, the turbulence at airports never stops
A para-cyclist had his prosthetic leg yanked off during a security check in Bengaluru, showing that airports still have not learnt any lessons in sensitivity.
Nipun Malhotra
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How I learnt to stop being a ‘traveller’ and stay at home
Not everyone wants to be an urban nomad, passport in hand and hair fluttering in the breeze.
Sayalee Karkare
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Berlin has banned homeowners from renting out flats on Airbnb – here’s why
Noisy tourists are putting a strain on Berlin's rental market.
Douglas Robertson, The Conversation
Video
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations