Call for Ban on Rs5,000 Banknotes
–The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce (OICCI) has called for a ban on Rs5,000 banknotes to prevent currency circulation… –OICCI has also suggested making the national tax number (NTN) mandatory
The Year of Singing Politically: Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Sweden
By Philip V. Bohlman at OUP: Welcome to the show. Let everybody know I’m done playin’ the game. I’ll break out of the chains. —Nemo, “The Code,” winning song of
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Translating is Like X-raying a Book. You Get a Deep Tissue Read.
Hephzibah Anderson in The Guardian: Sam Taylor, 53, was living in rural France with four well-received novels to his name when he realised that he wasn’t going to be able
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Why the OpenAI Team In Charge of Safeguarding Humanity Imploded
Sigal Samuel at Vox: For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike
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“The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction”
Soni Wadhwa in the Asian Review of Books: Detective fiction in the West is often grouped with crime fiction and thrillers; but in detective fiction, the focus is on a
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The Art Of Ed Ruscha
“Dead Serious About Being Nonsensical” David Platzker at Artforum: Ruscha’s avant-garde proclivities surfaced in his first pagework as a member of the group Students Five, a collective of friends—Joe Good,
Friday Poem: Radio
I think I forgot to turnoff the radio whenI left my mother’swomb In Hasidic Judaismit is said that before weare born an angelenters the womb,strikes us on themouthand we forget
Working the System: For or Against Democracy
Mary L Trump at The Good in Us: The system which, depending on your perspective, is either broken or working exactly as designed, is something Mitch McConnell has worked within
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Learning to be Happier
Bruce Hood at Aeon: My own tutee students, whom I met on a regular basis, were reporting poor mental health or asking for extensions because they were unable to meet
‘He Likes Scaring People’: How Modi’s Right-hand Man, Amit Shah, Runs India
Atul Dev in The Guardian: Today, Amit Shah isn’t home minister for Gujarat, but all of India. From the heart of power in Delhi, he is in charge of domestic
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Climate Change is Linked to Worsening Brain Diseases – New Study
Jo Adetunji at The Conversation: Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Finally Phones Home After 5 Months of No Contact
Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about
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