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- ‘Do you remember Gold Spot had a contest? You had to collect the bottle caps with a Jungle Book character printed underneath and take it to a shop or the factory? I can’t remember what…
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- There is one call that comes every morning. We talk, with headphones plugged in as I water the plants. Two sisters in two cities reeling from a pandemic though her city, Delhi, is now suffering…
- Scribbling on the reverse side of a printed sheet, I make a list. Pencil lines that cut through my day, carving it into manageable pieces. Two hours blocked for writing. Another half hour is marked…
- Just as the normalcy train had resumed services, the B.1.1.529 strain has made it screech to a halt. The WHO pulled the alarm chain. South Africa and Botswana had conscientiously reported the new variant to…
- ‘Kaaltchural appropriation cholbey na!’ Amader adda has been Marwarified beyond recognition, but no one is marching in protest against this eggless coup. Actually, no one is marching against anything in Kolkata. The only ‘unionised’ stuff…
- Being a Bengali, I know I am supposed to love “bhromon” or travel, and I don’t know whether I will be dubbed a “bohiragato”, if I confess that I just do not. Because you see,…
- In HG Wells’s 1898 sci-fi page-turner, The War of the Worlds, Martians train ‘envious eyes’ on Earth. Then Mars attacks, deploying heat-rays and terrifying tripod-machines. We’re told theirs is a dying planet, whereas Earth is…
- A character in a Hermann Hesse novel observes that “Movement creates obstacles.” If you don’t move but stay put you’ll face no obstacles. The Greek thinker Xeno took this thought further by saying that all…
- Ahoy, Imgurians! Team Imgur here to bring you some news about the business side of Imgur happenings. Tradition is tradition, so as is customary, we’ll share the final product first:…
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- May 13th and 14th 2021 was Hobby Day, a day dedicated to the aspiring craftspeople, ambitious creators, and old professionals who pour their heart and soul into their hobby! The…
- Praise the sun! The Sky Day event has concluded, and Imgurians from all over the world shared their part of the planetary patchwork. Through the thousands of submissions, three cloud…
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