The charm of the 80s school vacation and and the endless triumph of imagination over possession

[ad_1] May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, flatly baffled in the […]

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Top news developments in Karnataka on September 5, 2022

[ad_1] 1. The Gauri Memorial Trust as part of the Fifth Gauri Memorial Day is organising the Gauri Memorial Lecture on Monday. The lecture will be delivered by well-known film actor Prakash Rai, fact-checked and journalist Mohammed Zubair from Alt News and noted writer and activist Arundathi Roy. During the event, a campaign for withdrawing false charges against Teesta Setalvad and Prof. Ganesh Devy will also be launched. The programme […]

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Mary Roy, educator and champion of women’s rights, passes away

[ad_1] Mary Roy, mother of renowned writer Arundhati Roy, fought a 39-year-long legal battle to gain equal access to the property of her deceased father that led to a landmark Supreme Court judgement against the archaic Travencore Christian Succession Act of 1916 Mary Roy, mother of renowned writer Arundhati Roy, fought a 39-year-long legal battle […]

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