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Cricket isn’t just what happens across 22 yards. Great cricket writers always go beyond the boundary. Vijay Lokapally 🇮🇳 joins me in ep 427 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the joys & heartbreaks of a lifetime of writing about cricket — & much else: seenunseen.in/episodes/2025/…

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“You cannot have a profession where you use words like ‘my lord’, or when you’re doing a petition it’s called a prayer. You’ve got to be kidding me. We are all citizens of the same democratic republic” PM EAC member Sanjeev Sanyal #DAW2025 #LatestNews #Judiciary

the worst part about being self-made is having to learn tennis at 30 instead of 8

It didn’t just nuke university hiring in terms of young faculty members. Imagine why hundreds of international students would pay top money for a bachelor’s or a master’s degree if they’re reasonably sure that no employer would sponsor a work visa for them once they graduate?

“I think you can say that all the isms of the various forms of racism—anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, and so on—stem from a resentment on account of an envy, the envy that comes from not having belief in as strong a form.” —Fredric Jameson buff.ly/INFA1Zb

"In 1940 Simone Weil, assailed by headaches of unknown origin, began to write an essay on Homer's Iliad, the oldest western war poem. Weil was familiar with the work in Greek, since she learnt on her own, when she was 12." One of the great Homeric essays: antigonejournal.com/2022/05/poetry…

In celebration of “Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings,” at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, Artforum revisits “Blonde Ambition: The Art of Lisa Yuskavage,” a feature essay by Katy Siegel published in the magazine’s May 2000 issue. artforum.com/features/blond…

Nostalgia is not a bad thing, but the Durga Puja pandals and idols nowadays just blow away the kind of the stuff we grew up with in the eighties and nineties. A lot of the traditional work then was excellent as well, but some of the theme pujas today are just unbelievably

এক অভূতপূর্ব দুর্যোগের পরিস্থিতি সৃষ্টি হয়েছে রাজ্যে। মাননীয়া মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর উপদেশে এই দুর্যোগে ছাত্রছাত্রীদের স্বস্তি দিতে এবং দুর্ঘটনা থেকে রক্ষা করতে আগামী কাল এবং পরশু, অর্থাৎ ২৪ এবং ২৫ সেপ্টেম্বর রাজ্যের সমস্ত বিদ্যালয় ও উচ্চ শিক্ষা প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলি বন্ধ রাখার সিদ্ধান্ত

Folks are purging out the anti-Indian hatred on this platform with a strong influx of Durga pujo images.

Whenever I talk with Michael Clemens about the economics of immigration, I come away a whole lot smarter. You can enjoy the same experience: He's written a fantastic primer on what the data says about the effects of slashing H-1B visas. It's a banger. Read it piie.com/blogs/realtime…

I've seen one of the greatest of documentaries, William Greaves's Once Upon a Time in Harlem, and I hope that you'll be able to see it soon, too: newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…

“I’ve lived more than 150 lives, prostitute, saint, romantic, every kind of woman, and that is marvellous to have this opportunity to change yourself,” Claudia Cardinale RIP 1938-2025

Reality seems to have caught up with Thomas Pynchon’s fictions—but does his first book in a dozen years have anything to tell us about our present moment? nyer.cm/KVMHJxm

Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal’s baby will probably be a living embodiment of “regression towards the mean.”

Unpublished Raymond Chandler short story to appear in literary magazine A fantastic article from The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2025/sep… #raymondchandler #philipmarlowe

Man Ray was a painter, photographer, gizmo-maker, draftsman, filmmaker, chess-set designer, writer, poet, editor, publisher, adman, cartographer, prankster. He also had a habit of inventing niche art forms—one of which is now on display at the Met. nyer.cm/nE3Yl5y