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How well Lokah does transitions. A fridge door closing gracefully leads to another moment. A group of lights turn into ice cubes in a glass. And of course, right at the beginning, an absolutely cool Kalyani Priyadarshan leaps out of a…
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This wasn’t even a late night presser.
India suffers not because the average Indian is mediocre, but because the Indian elite is mediocre. Instead of lifting all, they create little bubbles for themselves.
"For VS, Alappuzha was not merely his birthplace, but the crucible of resistance from where he rose — as a labourer, trade unionist, revolutionary, freedom fighter, and politician. It shaped him into one of the preeminent communist leaders" thehindu.com/news/national/…
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The first lesson about the international system is that there is not system at all. The liberal, rules-based order is neither liberal nor orderly. The world is an anarchic place. The more powerful you are the greater your chances of survival are.
In 2024 a whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, an engineer with Boeing, alleged that the company has taken shortcuts in manufacturing the Dreamliner 787 and as the aircrafts ages the risks will become “catastrophic”.
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