Inhabited Sea
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How Mumbai’s flamingos and Koli fishers could help the city in its battle against flooding
They offer lessons about designing a more watery, resilient and just city.
Rhea Shah
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To save Mumbai’s toxic Thane Creek, experts should listen to the experiences of traditional fishers
Amidst rising waters in times of climate change, the Kolis are inheritors of an entire knowledge system that was assembled by centuries of collective living.
Lalitha Kamath & Gopal Dubey
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What Mumbai’s sea of plastic taught researchers about the city’s economy of waste
How do plastics and other waste that do not get recycled become the marine debris’ sampled on the shore?
Adwaita Banerjee, Siddharth Chitalia, Courtney Daub & Zulekha Sayyed
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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In Mumbai’s Lallubhai Compound, children film how the monsoon affects their resettlement colony
Their point of interest is not the event of rain itself, but all of the things that it permeates.
Ashok Sukumaran
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For Mumbai to cope with frequent floods, it must see itself as a place in an estuary – not an island
The operative word in the island city is ‘drain’. The operative word in the estuary is ‘soak’.
Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha
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As monsoon-soaked Mumbai battles with the sea, residents on the margins hold out key lessons
The city’s fishers, wetland farmers and others on the edge could help designers understand the changing rhythms of water, earth and air.
Nikhil Anand
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes