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Thar, a new Netflix release, belongs to a distinct subversive genre. Long shots of desolate desert. A grisly murder, a severed ear. A fatigued cop, Surekha (Anil Kapoor), about to
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A new book from Tariq Ali argues that Britain needs to face up to the darker side of its great wartime icon Priyamvada Gopal in the Prospect: On the back
Adele’s ‘Hello’ was the fastest music video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. The song now has 2,974,930,689 (2.975 billion) views – since October 2015 – it has 17m
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You take some Jew and treat him lousy his whole life. You treat him like dirt. Watch out! He’s going to do something. —Admiral Hyman G. Rickover speaking to an
While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition
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Matthew Wong was a brilliant Canadian painter who died by suicide at the age of thirty-five, just before the start of the pandemic. Largely self-taught, he “spent no more than
by David J. Lobina: What I really mean, of course, is what The Language of Thought (LoT, postea) is like; after all, in previous entries of this series on the
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Shared by Khalid Sharif, London: I often wondered why the lyrics say “Hello darkness my old friend.” Here’s the story behind it: It is the story of a poor boy,
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Tajdar e haram: A soulful performance by a street singer with harmonium (also called Reed Organ) in Islamabad: A Bangladeshi street singer sings “Hai apna dil toh awara” using harmonium.
Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon: Creativity is an essential element of the human condition. Yet unlike other elements of our humanity, there’s a perception that creativity seems to leave us as we
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Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The first four nodes of ARPANET—the Department of Defense’s primeval internet—were connected in 1969, the very