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The Show Must Go On: How Cinema Refuses to Fade to Black in India

Indian cinema began contemplating its own mortality exactly four decades ago, prompted into self-reflection by the seismic effects of the television and video revolution across the country. In 1984, just two years had passed since the Asian Games were held in Delhi, an event that was responsible for the mass-scale adoption of television across the country. This was accompanied by an equally…

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is based on the Indiana Jones franchise and features an original narrative that draws from the film series.

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okay i’ve changed my mind about armand’s origin story AGAIN.

above screenshots are from Hindus Beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade by Scott C. Levi

so the talamasca notes his origins as “delhi” which is corroborated by armand’s earliest memory (“i’m being ran down by slavers in delhi.”) this would have been when he was a child, let’s say under 12 years old. this makes the year no later than 1520. the portuguese had already established trade links with india through vasco de gama in the previous century but through calicut. calicut is nowhere near delhi as the former is a coastal polity whereas the latter is further up north.

if he was abducted north to south, in order for armand to have been trafficked from delhi to venice, he would have been captured by locals for domestic service → eventually made his way to coastal settlements where european traders were → given to europeans and taken on a ship → eventually landed in venice.

if he was abducted further north before going back south, he could have been abducted for international trade (i.e. central asia) and may have actually spent some time there for an uzbek/chagatai turkic-speaking household (hence “asr namozi” instead of “salat al asr”) before making his way somehow back into the subcontinent - he escaped? he got sold again? he accompanied a party making way down south? cue european traders taking him for their own commodity and the long voyage to the mediterranean. it’s possible his parents’ relative poverty had prevented them from paying taxes to the sultan, rendering them disloyal to the eyes of the aristocracy, and were deemed free game for enslavement.

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Just in case. Some might enjoy. Had to organize some notes.

These are just some of the newer texts that had been promoted in the past few years at the online home of the American Association of Geographers. [At: aag dot org/new-books-for-geographers/]

Tried to narrow down selections to focus on (1) Indigenous, Black, Latin American, oceanic/archipelagic geographies; (2) imaginaries and environmental perception; (3) and mobility, borders, carceral/abolition geography.

These texts feature concepts/subjects like: Indigeneity and "geographies of time" in the Ecuadorian Andes. "Migration and music in the construction of precolonial AfroAsia." The "practice of collective escape" and "reimagining geographies of order." The "making and unmaking of French India." The "literary geography" of the rubber boom in Amazonia. "Coercive geographies" and mass imprisonment. "Anti-fatness as anti-Blackness." The "(un)governable city" of colonial Delhi.

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New stuff, early 2024:

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit (Hannah Regis, University of the West Indies Press, 2024)

Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America (Raúl Zibechi and translator George Ygarza Quispe, AK Press, 2024)

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico (K. Maria D. Lane, University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities (Tarara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, and Nike Romano, Routledge, 2024)

Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game Is Afoot (David McLaughlin, University of Chicago Press, 2025)

Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies (Anahit Behrooz, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)

Midlife Geographies: Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time (Aija Lulle, Bristol University Press, 2024)

Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order (Anthony Ince and Geronimo Barrera de la Torre, Pluto Press, 2024)

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New stuff, 2023:

The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis, Duke University Press, 2023)

Activist Feminist Geographies (Edited by Kate Boyer, Latoya Eaves and Jennifer Fluri, Bristol University Press, 2023)

The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina (Mercedes Biocca, Pluto Press, 2023)

The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Dueterte (Vicente L. Rafael, Duke University Press, 2022)

Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (İlkay Yılmaz, Syracuse University Press, 2023)

The Practice of Collective Escape (Helen Traill, Bristol University Press, 2023)

Maps of Sorrow: Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial AfroAsia (Sumangala Damodaran and Ari Sitas, Columbia University Press, 2023)

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New stuff, late 2022:

B.H. Roberts, Moral Geography, and the Making of a Modern Racist (Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr.and Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)

Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa (Martin Kalb, Berghahn Books, 2022)

Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape (Edited by Alexandra Coțofană and Hikmet Kuran, Berghahn Books 2022)

Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905 (Matthew Unangst, University of Toronto Press, 2022)

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (Kenton Rambsy, University of Mississippi Press, 2022)

Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (Ruth Rogaski, University of Chicago Press, 2022)

Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment (Jessica T. Simes, University of California Press, 2021)

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New stuff, early 2022:

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blackness (Da’Shaun Harrison, 2021)

Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement (Edited by Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Haymarket Books, 2021)

Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil (Alan Marcus, University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place (Palgrave, 2021)

Krakow: An Ecobiography (Edited by Adam Izdebski & Rafał Szmytka, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State (Kathryn Abrams, University of California Press, 2022)

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

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New stuff, 2020 and 2021:

Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom (Amanda Smith, Liverpool University Press, 2021)

Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (Edited by María del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page, 2020)

Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives (Matt Thompson, University of Liverpool Press, 2020)

The (Un)governable City: Productive Failure in the Making of Colonial Delhi, 1858–1911 (Raghav Kishore, 2020)

Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia-Mongolia Border (Edited by Alex Oehler and Anna Varfolomeeva, 2020)

Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador (Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, 2019)

City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (Marcus P. Nevius, University of Georgia Press, 2020)

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Omg I’m in so-called portland! Chochu local and the momo stand are both at the food cart pod on sandy blvd. so good! The jade night market might coincide w your visit. The Portland art museum is mostly white people art. DNI. Also if you can make it to wy’east like Timothy lake you can swim <3 the water around the city is GrossTM. Dabney park and oxbow park are maybe slightly better. The Willamette and Columbia rivers r nasty in Portland. Also my ex worker at voodoo donuts and they have a union busting problem (so does Powell’s city of books) and also a rat problem. There’s hella fancy donut places besides that but all the south Asian besties say the donuts here r pretty wack. Peninsula park in northeast a way more accessible version of the rose gardens northwest.

ALSO ALSO ALSO I went to a bar the cheerful bullpen and they let me put on the Indy 500. 10/10 would go day drink there again.

appreciate this message a lot! tho im laughing at the idea of swimming in any water body in a city it did not even occur to me... i live in new delhi the yamuna is contaminated with heavy metals, sewage and so much effluent that it always has a layer of white foam on it. didn’t know pdx loves donuts! i do like them but only when they're not "elevated" so maybe i'll find a gas station to try Real American donuts.

i have only watched the indy 500 once but i love a bit of local racing culture! if i was around on any other week i would have tried to catch a portland thorns game (especially since most of the uswnt and canwnt players are back from early exits at the wwc lol.) but they're literally playing away :/

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Satya Prakash Gupta Delhi

Landmarks of Model Town

Alpana Cinema (now closed) is situated near Model Town 1 crossing which was not only one of the reputed Cinema Halls of Delhi but also a well-known landmark of the area. Chhatrasal Stadium is also situated opposite Model Town 3 in the area and was used for soccer matches during the Asian Games, held in Delhi, India in the 80s Model Town is connected by the Delhi Metro on the Vishwavidyalaya route and has one stop Model Town metro Station.

Its actual postal address is only Model Town 110009, however as it has 3 bus stops on the main road people use too often refer to the location of the stop as reference landmark (e.g. near Model Town 1st stop) which is now often referred as Model Town 1 or 2 or 3.

Model Town 1 has a lake called Naini Lake in the middle of the locality with a boating facility and has a walking path around the lake for morning and evening walkers. This lake is maintained by the Delhi Tourism.

The Grand Trunk Road (originally built under the reign of Sher Shah Suri) is close to Model Town, and the Historic Gurudwara Nanak Piao is located in the road. This Gurudwara sahib is dedicated to the first Sikh Guru, Sri Guru nanak Dev. The word "Piao" means to "offer liquid to drink" and refers to the offering of water to all the thirsty who visited this shrine.

The Foundation of the new capital of British India, New Delhi, was laid at the nearby Coronation park by King George V in December, 1911, making this area historically significant.

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[ad_1] Joydeep Karmakar with son Adrian (left). Suruchi and Samrat Rana after winning air pistol mixed event at Nationals (PC: X) The depth in Indian shooting has come to the fore, again. At the ongoing Nationals being conducted by the National Rifle Association of India in New Delhi and Bhopal for pistol and rifle, results coming from fearless juniors is brilliant news. Sample this, one more girl from Jhajjar, Haryana has stormed the air pistol arena answering to the name of Suruchi. When this teenager, unheard of, did well in the air pistol main event, juniors and seniors, it was clear that she was on a mission. And on Saturday, she also won the mixed gold. Suruchi trains at the same basic academy in Jhajjar where Manu Bhaker started her career. Four medals for Suruchi in one event is brilliant. One should not jump to conclusions that the next champion has been born but what stands out as unique is Suruchi has handled the big stage well. The number of entries for pistol and rifle events is in the thousands. Air pistol and rifle events have become a rage where youngsters start training at a young age. The Khelo India programme saw Manu Bhaker make her first beginning before she did well at almost every international event. And at Paris 2024, she peaked, winning two bronze medals, and finished fourth in sports pistol. Sample the field which Suruchi has competed in. She was ready to shoot without any inhibition and did better than Rhythm Sangwan and Palak Guliya. Manu and Esha Singh did not compete in the Nationals. Suruchi has already notched up a basic good score which will come into the NRAI records when the qualification process for the 2026 Asian Games kicks in next year. There is still a bit of uncertainty as some changes are being proposed by ISSF, the world body. For the present, to do well in the Nationals is a massive achievement for Suruchi. “Anna, please write about such kids. They are fearless and ready to come out and shoot, minus any fear and face the Nationals. It shows the right attitude. I am sure this one big score Suruchi already has in the air pistol event will give her a head start,” says coach Rana. He has been tracking the Nationals and feels there is no dearth of talent. “There is a big change, today’s youngsters are not worried. They have picked up early and to grow further, they have the confidence. My suggestion is not to put pressure on them. Any fresh talent is good news and four medals is big,” said Rana. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Indian Shooting (PC: NRAI) There was also a good result in the 25-metre sports pistol event last week in New Delhi when Riya Shirish from Pune won the gold medal in a packed field which also had some seasoned pros like Rahi Sarnobat. Riya defeated Simranpreet Brar in the final shoot-off and was oozing confidence. “It is a mental game and I am happy with the way I shot in the final,” said Riya. “The kind of raw scores in qualifying is exciting to watch. Shooting in India will grow and so many new National champions emerging is good. I did watch the sports pistol event and am happy there is depth,” added Rana. At the shooting ranges in Bhopal, where the rifle events are being held, Adrian Karmakar, son of Joydeep Karmakar did well to win the 3P gold in the junior section. Trained by his father, Adrian has been firing consistent scores for a while, training in Kolkata. “I only tell my son not to fear and worry about anything. There is some pressure being a second generation shooter. Adrian missed the senior final by one point, so he is on the right track,” Joydeep told RevSportz. He has been coaching for a long time now and feels there is plenty of depth in Indian shooting. “Happy to be doing my own stuff away from politics,” is Joydeep’s mantra. Coach Rana, who had started his career as a rifle shooter first, said the 3P is a technical event. “Adrian is a sweet kid and talented. He is focused and doing the right things. Give him time, he will mature further,” he noted.

Also Read: Conqueror and gentleman, the Gukesh tale of simplicity in excellence The post Young, fearless shooters like Suruchi, Riya and Adrian Karmakar grab headlines appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Joydeep Karmakar with son Adrian (left). Suruchi and Samrat Rana after winning air pistol mixed event at Nationals (PC: X) The depth in Indian shooting has come to the fore, again. At the ongoing Nationals being conducted by the National Rifle Association of India in New Delhi and Bhopal for pistol and rifle, results coming from fearless juniors is brilliant news. Sample this, one more girl from Jhajjar, Haryana has stormed the air pistol arena answering to the name of Suruchi. When this teenager, unheard of, did well in the air pistol main event, juniors and seniors, it was clear that she was on a mission. And on Saturday, she also won the mixed gold. Suruchi trains at the same basic academy in Jhajjar where Manu Bhaker started her career. Four medals for Suruchi in one event is brilliant. One should not jump to conclusions that the next champion has been born but what stands out as unique is Suruchi has handled the big stage well. The number of entries for pistol and rifle events is in the thousands. Air pistol and rifle events have become a rage where youngsters start training at a young age. The Khelo India programme saw Manu Bhaker make her first beginning before she did well at almost every international event. And at Paris 2024, she peaked, winning two bronze medals, and finished fourth in sports pistol. Sample the field which Suruchi has competed in. She was ready to shoot without any inhibition and did better than Rhythm Sangwan and Palak Guliya. Manu and Esha Singh did not compete in the Nationals. Suruchi has already notched up a basic good score which will come into the NRAI records when the qualification process for the 2026 Asian Games kicks in next year. There is still a bit of uncertainty as some changes are being proposed by ISSF, the world body. For the present, to do well in the Nationals is a massive achievement for Suruchi. “Anna, please write about such kids. They are fearless and ready to come out and shoot, minus any fear and face the Nationals. It shows the right attitude. I am sure this one big score Suruchi already has in the air pistol event will give her a head start,” says coach Rana. He has been tracking the Nationals and feels there is no dearth of talent. “There is a big change, today’s youngsters are not worried. They have picked up early and to grow further, they have the confidence. My suggestion is not to put pressure on them. Any fresh talent is good news and four medals is big,” said Rana. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Indian Shooting (PC: NRAI) There was also a good result in the 25-metre sports pistol event last week in New Delhi when Riya Shirish from Pune won the gold medal in a packed field which also had some seasoned pros like Rahi Sarnobat. Riya defeated Simranpreet Brar in the final shoot-off and was oozing confidence. “It is a mental game and I am happy with the way I shot in the final,” said Riya. “The kind of raw scores in qualifying is exciting to watch. Shooting in India will grow and so many new National champions emerging is good. I did watch the sports pistol event and am happy there is depth,” added Rana. At the shooting ranges in Bhopal, where the rifle events are being held, Adrian Karmakar, son of Joydeep Karmakar did well to win the 3P gold in the junior section. Trained by his father, Adrian has been firing consistent scores for a while, training in Kolkata. “I only tell my son not to fear and worry about anything. There is some pressure being a second generation shooter. Adrian missed the senior final by one point, so he is on the right track,” Joydeep told RevSportz. He has been coaching for a long time now and feels there is plenty of depth in Indian shooting. “Happy to be doing my own stuff away from politics,” is Joydeep’s mantra. Coach Rana, who had started his career as a rifle shooter first, said the 3P is a technical event. “Adrian is a sweet kid and talented. He is focused and doing the right things. Give him time, he will mature further,” he noted.

Also Read: Conqueror and gentleman, the Gukesh tale of simplicity in excellence The post Young, fearless shooters like Suruchi, Riya and Adrian Karmakar grab headlines appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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Malaysian doubles coach Tan Kim Her returns for second stint with Indian Badminton Team

New Delhi, November 26, 2024: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has appointed Malaysian doubles specialist Tan Kim Her to work with the national team for the second time. Instrumental in pairing Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy during his first stint with India, Tan will focus on developing strong doubles partnerships and bench strength ahead of the 2026 Asian Games and 2028 Los…

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Black Myth: Wukong - Part 3 Walkthrough | #blackmythwukonggameplay #blac...

Black Myth: Wukong is a 2024 action role-playing game developed and published by Game Science. The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, and follows an anthropomorphic monkey based on the character of Sun Wukong from the novel. Please Like, Comment, Share, and Subscribe

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Covid-19 Love Story

It was COVID-19, or the reasonable and mandatory lockdown or quarantine, that changed my life. It turned my home-shifting plans, first, into a three-month horrendous experience and then a happy ending for the rest of my life. I lived happily for almost two decades in a government accommodation given to my master Mohammad Ali in the posh area of the Asian Games village in South Delhi.

            My master was a government officer. He died three years ago. His wife was much younger than he. She got a government job on compassionate grounds. She could have continued to stay there using the sympathy, victim card and good connections, but she decided not to use those things and sought a new government quarter according to her service level. She easily got a quarter allotted in another colony which was at a distance of around twenty kilometers.

            Luckily for me, I was retained by her as a driver. She gave me the servant room to live in her new apartment at Timar Pur. It was readied by the maintenance staff very fast. We were ready to move out of our Vasant Kunj apartment and got ready to move out to the new address.

            In the third week of February, my new master asked the Electricity, Water departments and IGL to cut the supply and connections of the old house. They agreed immediately. She asked the Telephone Directorate to transfer her telephone to the new address. However, despite repeated requests, the request was not fulfilled. 

            As my new boss, Mrs Fatima Ali was a widow now. She had one home in Kashmir and the other in Delhi. She was supposed to shift during the holy month of Ramadan. She discussed her plan with the Maulvis. They suggested a date in the month of March. As she lost her husband, she wanted to move according to the suggestions of soothsayers to ward off any ominous spirit. 

            My preference was to shift on the first day of Navaratra. Fortunately, my pundits agree on the date. My two pundits, one from my village and another from Delhi, though they disagree on time. I was told by one of the pundits to do the Griha Pravesh in the morning, light a lamp, perform Ganapathi Puja prepare the sweet kheer and offer prasadam to the deity before doing anything else. It was very easy but a little early for a single man since my family lives in my village.

            My Delhi pundit was extremely liberal. He recommended any day or time during Navratra would be lucky - I could shift to my new home at my convenient time and perform the Ganapathi and Navaratra Puja after settling down properly. He added that before leaving, cleaned the entire house properly last time. However, he suggested further, "When you leave your old house, go to each room, pray and express gratitude to the Vastu Purush for caring and blessing you all these years. While departing, switch on the front room light and switch off all other lights."

            Mrs Fatima hired a movers and packers services and asked her friends and colleagues to help her shift to the new house. About two weeks before that, She carried her personal belongings and her departed husband's important items like clothes, laptop, notepad, paper, pen etc. to the new address to make sure they were in one container. " These include her husband's certificates, service papers, pension papers, property documents, books, print articles, holy books, musical instruments like flute, mouth organ, tabla, dholak, harmonium (her husband's instruments were her favourite) and some pictures. She wanted to be able to shift to a new residence without wasting too much time to be comfortable there.

            On March 22, the 'Janta Curfew'  by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. The lockdown was sudden, as well as mysterious. There were unaccountable stories about the deadly COVID-19 and its impact.

            We could have shifted here if a week or at least a few days were given, performing the poojas, havans with all the other belongings. But with the abrupt lockdown, everything went haywire. 

            The packing company informed Madam to wait due to the sudden lockdown for an indefinite period because all the workers hurriedly rushed to their native places. In her excitement, she happily moved all the air-conditioners to a new flat. So she has to bear the scorching heat of Delhi by June. She had rashes on her skin due to heat. This is the smallest unpleasant incident.

            We moved most of our clothes and belongings to the new house. As time passed, we had no clothes to change into at our old home. I had to request my friend Ashok Kumar to get some clothes. He was kind enough to give me his two pairs of T-shirts and half-pants for me and two old salwar suits of his wife for Madam. Madam was overwhelmed to see my concern for her safety and well-being. The first time, I saw in her eyes a sense of gratitude and affection for me. 

            That sounds like a strange but powerful and intimate experience—living through those challenging days, developing unanticipated attachment, and finding a sense of affection and togetherness amid hardship. It’s miraculous how people can become so close in times of hardship, mainly when faced with limited resources and shared responsibilities.

            It appears like Mrs. Fatima became not just a boss or acquaintance, but almost a cohort in this survival journey.  Spreading sheets on the ground to create a “livable room” feels like it symbolizes not just physical adjustments, but emotional ones too—a space made comfortable not by the luxury of things, but by mutual care and respect. There's a special kind of trust and camaraderie that emerges when you're sharing not just space, but the raw realities of daily life, especially in tough times.

            We were just sitting pointlessly and counting days for a break in the lockdown. Again, I conferred with an astrologer for a new auspicious day. He smiled and replied, " Get ready for a long drag. All the individual horoscopes and stars are not working right now. All are poised. This is a time of universal crisis."

            We are very religious but not superstitious. It is the family practice of Madam to perform some Islamic rituals before starting any new work. It was my family's belief to do Graha Pravesh (entering a new house) on an auspicious day or mahurath. So, when she finally moved, she called the Maulvi to recite the Holy Quran first in her drawing room. I also got the puja and haven performed by Pundit Ji on the auspicious day and time and prepared the milk kheer first. 

            Movers and packers were very swift. Authorities ordered that all employees and workers wear masks, and gloves and use hand sanitiser. Madam assured me that she will take care of it. They got all the formalities and permits in the first week of June. Both the area Municipal and Health offices should allow you to  exit  and enter. It is a well-known fact that workers and poor people suffer because they are slack in following the discipline in line.

            You can't ask for help from your friends because of the risk. Even the most sincere packer can get frustrated and puzzled when one's most valuable belongings are piles of office records books, documents, magazines and clippings. We are sure they wondered if we put garbage, scrap bags, radios, transistors, boxes of cassettes, CDs and pen drives while dragging boxes up and down the stairs. Who is playing cassettes, cassette players, and tape recorders these days? Should we tow them or throw them away?

The Covid virus or the China bimaree, has taken the world back to the Dark Ages. Communities are practising new forms of racism. People who know anything about this disease are pretending like expert doctors and scientists.  

            Media propaganda has only helped to develop and strengthen this way of thinking and approach ---- Whether the curfew or lockdown was successful in containing the disease is debatable, but the broadcast raises psychological fears in the country. 

            COVID-19 patients and indispensable workers have suffered prejudices. Families even refused to bury the dead for fear of infection. History appears to be repeating itself. This pandemic has destroyed all the joys of civilization. The families used to shun and dump their own to pitiless seclusion and weird funerals during an eruption.

            This hardship took a beautifully warm turn, and I could feel the delicate swings in the bond between me and Mrs Fatima. It’s captivating how, over time, our relationship deepens into something more than just a practical or transactional partnership—it becomes a shared emotional journey, marked by small but significant gestures that speak volumes.

            The way she snatched the sheet from me on the first night, insisting on sharing the bed, carries a lot of weight. It's a tender moment where she cares for me and seeks to share a sense of belonging with me. Her eyes, filled with affection and perhaps a longing for companionship, reflect something more profound than simple familiarity. It seems like this bond was quietly growing, fueled by the comfort of proximity and the warmth of mutual support through difficult times.

            The next morning, when I decide to visit the temple, the bond deepens even further. It's interesting that, even in this sacred setting, the bond is expressed in a physical, almost silent way—when she grabbed my hand. The act of holding hands in a place of prayer could symbolize many things: trust, solidarity, or the quiet acceptance of the relationship that has unfolded between us.

            The temple is a space of devotion, and perhaps, in that shared silence and presence, both of us are able to express feelings that go beyond words—feelings that were nurtured during the months of struggle. Our prayer, her presence beside me, and the way our hands intertwined, all seem to communicate a deep, unspoken connection. It’s as if we’ve transcended the boundaries of circumstance and found a new sense of togetherness, both physical and spiritual.

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Palak, Aakash win silver in World University shooting

A file photo of  Palak Gulia | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Asian Games gold medallist Palak Gulia was beaten to the women’s air pistol gold by 0.3 points by Heng-Yu Liu of Chinese Taipei in the World University shooting championship in New Delhi on Saturday (November 9, 2024). Arshdeep Kaur pulled through for the bronze to maintain India’s grip on the event. Aakash Bhardwaj won the men’s…

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"Teacher Tried To...": India's Star Olympic Medallist Sakshi Malik Says She Was Sexually Harassed In Her Childhood

New Delhi, Oct 21 Olympic bronze medal-winning former wrestler Sakshi Malik has said that Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia’s decision to accept exemption from the Asian Games trials last year hit the image of their protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh as it made their movement seem “selfish”. Sakshi, who was one of the three prominent faces of the prolonged protest, made this statement in her…

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How PKL went on to become the biggest Kabaddi league?

Pro Kabaddi League or PKL is the biggest and most popular professional Kabaddi tournament hosted in India. Launched in 2014, PKL features top international men kabaddi stars, who go under the hammer every season in the PKL auction. The tournament is the second most watched sports league in India after the very popular Indian Premier League. While the league is broadcast on Star Sports, there are various online platforms that provide kabaddi fanatics with the PKL live score. The idea of PKL came into life after the popularity of the sport at the 2006 edition of the Asian Games.

Ever since the IPL has become popular in the Indian subcontinent, several sports came up with a league-based tournament, and PKL was no different. Like the cash-rich cricket league, PKL also follows a franchise-based model and was first hosted in 2014 with the participation of eight teams. Since kabaddi was less popular than cricket and had fans at grassroot levels in India, there were doubts whether the league would sustain or not. However, Indian fans as well as sports lovers across the globe adopted PKL and soon, the sport got fans in regions where the sport wasn’t much popular earlier.

The best part about PKL has always been the thrill it offers to fans and audience. Since its inception a decade ago, the league hasn’t seen one champion team every season. For example, Patna Pirates has won the tournament three times, consecutively. On the other hand, teams like Jaipur Pink Panthers have been crowned champions twice, while names like U Mumba, Bengaluru Bulls, Bengal Warriors, Dabang Delhi K.C and Puneri Paltan have won one title once.

The 2024 season of the PKL is set to begin on October 18 in Hyderabad. Unlike past editions, PKL Season 11 will have a three-destination format instead of the traditional 12-destination format in 2024. The first leg of the tournament will unfold in Hyderabad before the action moves to Noida Indoor Stadium and then Balewadi Badminton Stadium in Pune. The dates of the play-offs will be announced later along with their venues. Those who cannot travel but don’t wish to miss out on the action can rely on several media platforms for kabaddi live score. Earlier, League Commissioner Anupam Gosawmi expressed his excitement about the upcoming edition of the PKL 2024. He highlighted the potential of the forthcoming edition to elevate Kabaddi’s status further domestically and globally. He said, "After successfully completing 10 seasons, PKL Season 11 will mark a new milestone in the continued rise of the league. This would strengthen the growth of Kabaddi in India and elsewhere around the world."

PKL 2024 auction

In the auction for the next season, several players underwent bidding war in Mumbai, which shattered several records. A total of eight players secured bids of more than INR 1 Crore. Sachin Tanwar who was sold to Tamil Thalaivas, became the most expensive player with a bid of INR 2.15 Crore. Following him was Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh, who was sold to Haryana Steelers for INR 2.07 Crore. Other than him, Guman Singh (Gujarat Giants), Pawan Sehrawat (Telugu Titans), Bharat (UP Yoddhas), Maninder Singh (Bengal Warriors), Ajinkya Ashok Pawar (Bengaluru Bulls), and Sunil Kumar (U Mumba) secured bids of more than INR 1 Crore.

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