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Indians second biggest takers for China’s ‘tech’ tourism
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. For decades, the pilgrimage route for ambitious tech founders, investors, and engineers led to Silicon Valley. Now, a growing number of them are flying to Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Shenzhen instead. China is seeing a surge in a new kind…
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Tamil Nadu: Seven workers dead, nine critical after ammonia leak at seafood processing unit
Seven women died and more than 67 workers were hospitalised after an ammonia gas leak at a private seafood export unit near Periyapalayam in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district on Sunday, The Hindu quoted police officials as saying. Tiruvallur District Collector S Kavitha said that nine of the most critically ill workers were sent to the…
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‘Giants’: This novel for young readers makes a case for preserving indigenous stories and heritage
What does it mean to be a storyteller, a memory keeper of a land and its people? What does this mean specifically when you’re mute and everything you’ve ever known is on the cusp of irreversible change? In Huthuka Sumi’s novel for young readers, Giants, Kato, a mute 12-year-old boy, and his best (and, let’s…
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Long before AI ‘food dramas’, there was Arabic and Persian culinary poetry
Strawberrito is cheating on her husband Banananito. Chawal falls for Tacito (taco) during a trip to Mexico while his girlfriend Rajma pines away in their village in Punjab. Potato discovers the money-laundering scheme of his co-worker Brinjal at Onion’s car repair firm. This is one genre of the ever-expanding, AI-generated universe of brain-rot reels: talking…
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Bangladesh: Hindu groups protest after deity Ram’s picture allegedly desecrated
Members of the Hindu community in Bangladesh staged a protest in several districts on Saturday after an image of the deity Ram was allegedly desecrated earlier this month during demonstrations against the construction of a temple, reported The Daily Star. Work was underway to construct a temple dedicated to Ram and an 81-foot statue of…
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Sunday book pick: Dorothy Baker’s jazz novel ‘Young Man With a Horn’ gets you grooving
“It is the story of a number of things – of the gap between the man’s musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life; of the difference between the demands of expression and the demands of life here below; and finally of the difference between good and bad in a native…
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Indian Union Muslim League ends nearly six-decade-long alliance with DMK, backs TVK
The Indian Union Muslim League on Saturday said it had ended its nearly six-decade-long alliance with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, The Hindu reported. The party passed a resolution to this effect at a meeting of its general council on Friday. The Indian Union Muslim League, which won two seats in last month’s Tamil Nadu Assembly…
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Delhi HC orders removal of ‘false’ reports about judges’ London badminton event
The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the removal of “entirely false” reports claiming that Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, several other judges and Union ministers travelled to London at public expense to participate in a badminton tournament. Justice Tejas Karia ordered the removal of several media reports and social media posts making these…
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June global fiction: Six new novels that make the perfect mid-year reads
All information sourced from publishers. Land, Maggie O’Farrell On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger,…