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23 Apr 2023
Lovely weekend read on M Vishveshwariah and the back-stories & complex negotiations that went into the raising of ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಸಾಗರ/ KRS in Mandya-Mysore
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24 Apr 2023
AP was "Pappu" to his family, and “Dada”—elder brother—to a generation of young Rajput boys. But AP wasn’t Rajput. Or, at least, Rajputs didn’t think of him as their own—until he became a gangster.
@joyinderpura
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23 Apr 2023
Australia has a reputation for venomous snakes, we’ve all seen the memes. But all of Australia has the same population as Delhi.
@kamakshi138 peels the layers of India’s crippling snakebite problem.
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22 Apr 2023
When the KRS dam was sanctioned, even the grand American project Tennessee Valley Authority was two decades away. So, what possessed a princely state and its cadre of Indian engineers to undertake it?
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21 Apr 2023
For years, Indians have been obsessed over the question of when, where and if Subhas Chandra Bose died. But the answers have always been waiting for those who wanted to know, in Taiwan.
By @sowmiyashok
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20 Apr 2023
In Bettiah, the hunger for a large piece of land and an obsession with bloodline spilled over across eras, courts and generations.
@rumbotupalli presents a Game of Thrones from Bihar.
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18 Apr 2023
What do Urmila, Leela, Gourav, Kevin and Revathi have in common? Besides being the protagonists of @WhyGaze's essay, actually, very little. That's the point.
"Coupling" investigates the way some LGBTQ Indians have understood, conceived, and lived queer marriages.
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18 Apr 2023
This is a mosaic of lived experiences that isn't quite captured in 280 characters, movement manifestos––or legalese.
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Fifty Two retweeted
15 Apr 2023
#JubileeOnPrime
An ode to Indian Cinema!
What a brilliant show! Respect to each and everyone who believed in it and brought it to us.
To those who enjoyed it - do read this longread on #Andolan
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Fifty Two retweeted
16 Apr 2023
In parting, I echoed his farewell, one that evokes a sense of camaraderie: ‘yaaro yaari.’ Over this journey, I would meet many more like him—people who’d lost everything to the water, but had always known it better than all others. fiftytwo.in/story/rivers/
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Fifty Two retweeted
16 Apr 2023
Tbh, there's hardly any miss at @FiftyTwoDotIn, but this one especially resonates because this very opportunity is available for taking in a market like Nigeria too.
There's so much idleness and/or youth in rural Nigeria too, and very few options.
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Fifty Two retweeted
15 Apr 2023
Just finished reading this and it's really good.
15 Apr 2023
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Fifty Two retweeted
16 Apr 2023
« When you go looking for the rivers Hakra & Puran in Sindh, you find floods, danger, poets & protestors »
Essential, lyrical piece by @zuhaib_pirzada in @FiftyTwoDotIn on the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan.#ClimateJustice #LossandDamage
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16 Apr 2023
'For decades, he cherished one dream: to see his sport succeed in India, and for the country to have its own full-fledged professional league.'
@KaranMadhok1 on Indian basketball and its greatest coach India may have never heard of.
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15 Apr 2023
1930. The Kapila family had just moved from Punjab to Nairobi.
In both India & Kenya, there were stirrings against the colonial oppressor. But freedom would arrive in different ways.
@anuradhakumar01 looks at tumultuous times through AR Kapila's eyes.
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14 Apr 2023
“Ab upar jaake lena case waapis.” Now go up to heaven and take the case back. These were the last words allegedly spoken by the man who stabbed Jitender Meghwal to death.
@KapilKajal1 reconstructs a caste crime.
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12 Apr 2023
In the Sundarbans, a mother and daughter’s lives are circumscribed by the weather, poverty and social control.
@MRitwika tells their story:
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Fifty Two retweeted
12 Apr 2023
Met another namesake last week, who heard me out for the second time in 3 months abt how we both have @FiftyTwoDotIn bylines and an IIM Cal scene
this time, I also told him abt my book, which’d just been rejected by the NIF fellowship. He said he wasn’t with them currently BUT—
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11 Apr 2023
Jubilee, Vikram Motwane’s upcoming series, is set in the world of 1940s and 1950s Hindi cinema.
He knows a thing or two about it. His granddad once made a film ft. Kishore Kumar that had its muhurat shot at the legendary Bombay Talkies.
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9 Apr 2023
When the meme is extremely poisonous, as it often is, there may be no one to point a finger at. That anonymity is the boon and curse of the loose collective known as the Tamil Meme Nation. Boundaries blurring is, in a sense, the theme of @gradwolf's essay: fiftytwo.in/story/masters/
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