It reads as an example of two steps forward, one step backward. Even as it drives away from misogyny, any loss is dealt with through violence and revenge. This is mediated through the muscular body, trained into a buff superhero spectacle.
Phones and iPads have become pacifiers, a bit like what TV was to parents in the 1980s. Research suggests that technology is not the best early experience to fire the neurons. How much screen time should they have in the early years? Is the addictive nature troubling?
Self censorship of emotion is also explored in this novel. An invisible hand seems to be clamped over the protagonist’s mouth when he tries to speak of how political discrimination and oppression render the everyday impossible. He explains that his voice wavers because it is invested with the weight of reality.
Manliness becomes the rhetoric of the nation in the film, becomes an epic of endurance through running, becomes a singular story of a man
These limitations are widely recognized, which is why several countries have moved to considering the number of “excess deaths’, that is number of all deaths per population in the period, beyond what could be statistically expected in normal conditions. This has been used to suggest that actual deaths from the pandemic could be as much as 50-60 per cent higher than those reported.
The first of the five volume history of the Shia’s of Jammu and Kashmir in Urdu “Tarikh-e-Shiayan-e-Jammu va Kashmir” written by Justice (Retd) Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain was released at an impressive function on Saturday.
The anthology A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers (edited by David Davidar) features forty short stories which deal with India as it had been for the past few decades and India as it is now.
The movie all in all succeeds in portraying a successful picture of an Indian marriage in a small locality.
Apart from giving an interesting account of a BJP’s rise from piggybacking on the socialist group, the architect of the New BJP offers excellent details about the social psychology and political events.
In a move which has brought cheers to book lovers, Gulshan Books Kashmir opened a book outlet at Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday.
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