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Wikipedia’s sexist turn: Men are novelists, women are ‘women novelists’
At 5:44 PM on April 1, John Pack Lambert, a 32-year-old student of history at Wayne State University took a small step for one man which proved to be a giant leap for mankind. And I mean MANkind, not humanity. Lambert moved Patricia Aakhus, author of The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh #Gender #GoodReads #JustSaying #Misha #Wikipedia
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Priyanka as Mary Kom: Casting coup or racist faux pas?
There’s something about Mary that is making Priyanka Chopra very nervous. “I’m extremely stressed about the Mary Kom biopic because it’s such a huge name to live up to,” said Priyanka earlier this year. It’s no small feat to be convincing as an Olympic medalist boxer on the screen. But #Barack Obama #Bollywood #Boxing #CultureDecoder #Mary Kom #Priyanka Chopra #Sports #yellow face
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Movie Review: A dead aunty is the life of The Jewellery Box
When little Cole Spear says “I see dead people” in the The Sixth Sense, a chill ran down the collective spine of moviegoers. But in Aparna Sen’s The Jewellery Box, when the young bride Somlata sees her dead aunt-in-law, the audience bursts out laughing. It’s hard not to. The ghost is played #Aparna Sen #Goynar Baksho #Konkona Sen Sharma #Moushumi Chatterjee #MovieReview #movies
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The ABC of the IPL: What you miss on TV
Kolkata went IPL crazy last night because it was a double bonanza – home team Kolkata Knight Riders and Sachin Tendulkar’s 40th birthday. Even a nor’wester storm couldn’t keep the crowd at bay. The home team lost. Shah Rukh Khan wasn’t there. Sachin scored two runs off six balls. But #IPL #Kolkata Knight Riders #Sachin Tendulkar #UrbanPostcard
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We drink to get drunk: India’s booze problem
The two men accused of raping the five-year-old girl and shoving a bottle inside her, admitted that they had been drinking for hours and watching porn on a cell phone before they assaulted the little girl. The gang that took out that bus in Delhi in December had also been #Alcohol #alcohol prohibition #CultureDecoder #Delhi Gang Rape #Nimhans
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How Trinamool burnt its fingers in the Saradha chit fund scam
“Saradha and Trinamool are pretty much synonymous,” said CPM leader Sujan Chakravarty to media representatives as the chit fund meltdown sent Trinamool leaders scurrying to do damage control. As its head, the elusive Sudipta Sen, remains in hiding, Saradha itself has become Bengal’s number one political hot potato. Trinamool leader Mukul #Bengal's chit fund collapse #ConnectTheDots #Mamata Banerjee #Mukul Roy #Saradha Group
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Why the OCI card for NRIs is a hogwash
The Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) is not really any kind of citizenship. Now it turns out the “Lifelong” visa (clearly marked as that on the passport) it comes with is not lifelong either. New rules require the OCI registration certificate and visa to be re-issued every time a new passport is #Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs #OCI #Overseas Citizen of India #ThatsJustWrong
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Thatcher funeral: Can we ever ignore Thatcherism?
The Iron Lady might not have been for turning but protesters can turn their back on Margaret Thatcher. There’s a Turn Your Back on Thatcher protest planned today for her funeral. They plan to “reject the legacy” of Maggie Thatcher by quietly turning their backs on the coffin as it goes #JustSaying #Margaret Thatcher #Margaret Thatcher funeral
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The Boston marathon: An Indian runner remembers…
Devesh Khatu ran the Boston Marathon twice – once in 2009 and once in 2010. This year he was not running it. But ever since the bombs went off at America’s oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook wall have been flooded with anxious messages. Khatu once set himself a #Boston Marathon #Boston Marathon basts #Dave Zirin #OnOurMind
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My granddad, the Bengali peddler: An African-American writer finds her roots
In 1896, almost a century before Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala caused a stir by daring to show a romance between a black man and an Indian woman in the American South, a Muslim Bengali peddler from Hooghly married a black Catholic woman from New Orleans and settled down in that #Bengali Harlem #Fatima Shaik #Immigration to the United States #VeryCloseUp #Vivek Bald