Thousands of protesting farmers enter Delhi defying water cannon and police crackdown

Farmers from India’s Punjab state have begun entering Delhi to protest reforms they say are against their interests. Thousands of them marched to Delhi, where barricades at the border led to clashes with police. But they are now being escorted by the police to a protest site where they say they will continue demonstrating. The… Read More Thousands of protesting farmers enter Delhi defying water cannon and police crackdown

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PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author. By Vincent Dowd

P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago – crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting into scrapes. But he has countless fans around the world – not least… Read More PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author. By Vincent Dowd

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Maddie Oatman: Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.

Two new films about tending the earth offer very different worldviews   Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station on the White Mountain Apache Nation in eastern Arizona. Craig, a White Mountain Apache/Navajo chef, points to an empty refrigerated… Read More Maddie Oatman: Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.

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Ralph Steadman: 'We're really living in a hell of a year, aren't we?' Interview by Nadja Sayej

“All I wanted to do when I started was change the world, and now, 60 years on, I’ve succeeded,” says the 84-year-old artist. “But it’s worse now than when I started, we’re really living in a hell of a year, aren’t we?”….  When the Welsh artist Ralph Steadman picks up the phone, he sounds a bit paranoid.… Read More Ralph Steadman: 'We're really living in a hell of a year, aren't we?' Interview by Nadja Sayej

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Amanda Marcotte: Trump's lasting legacy: The right's open embrace of terrorism / Epidemiologist warns of “contagion” of violent speech coming “from the White House” / Damon Linker: America is buckling

Amanda Marcotte: Trump leaves a lasting legacy: The right’s open embrace of terrorism   In any sensible society, Kyle Rittenhouse would be shunned across the political spectrum. The 17-year-old Illinois resident stands accused of shooting three people, killing two of them, during an August Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Whatever the specific facts of that incident, the… Read More Amanda Marcotte: Trump's lasting legacy: The right's open embrace of terrorism / Epidemiologist warns of “contagion” of violent speech coming “from the White House” / Damon Linker: America is buckling

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Colonel Sa'ab

One day a Colonel Sa’ab from the Army fell into a well. The soldiers would throw a rope into the well and pull the Colonel Sa’ab out. The moment the Colonel would come up, the soldiers would leave the rope snap to attention and salute. The Colonel Sa’ab would fall back into the well. This… Read More Colonel Sa'ab

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Ian Sample: How a handful of scientists developed Oxford vaccine at breakneck speed

At the heart of Oxford’s effort to produce a Covid vaccine are half a dozen scientists who between them brought decades of experience to the challenge of designing, developing, manufacturing and trialing a safe vaccine at breakneck speed. Prof Sarah Gilbert, the Kettering-born project leader, arrived at Oxford in 1994 to work with Prof Adrian Hill, a senior member… Read More Ian Sample: How a handful of scientists developed Oxford vaccine at breakneck speed

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Ramachandra Guha criticises BCCI officials for conflict of interest

Historian and columnist Ramachandra Guha is a man who minces no words. And so, when the 62-year-old historian, in his memoir ‘Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind’, points to what’s ailing the game today in India, you know that he is talking about the… Read More Ramachandra Guha criticises BCCI officials for conflict of interest

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