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Museums of India National Portal and Digital Repository

October 25, 2024
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Museums are a repository of a nation’s culture as they contain explicit examples of the proof of the development of a country’s culture and heritage over a period of time. The strengthening of the country’s museums is thereby an important activity covered under the ambit of the Ministry of Culture.

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The restless traveller: A vignette | A Bengali Story in Translation

October 25, 2024
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He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride. With a smile of profound satisfaction,

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Bookshelf | New Books on the Shelves This Fortnight (November 1, 2024)

October 25, 2024
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Francis Itty Cora T.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K Nair HarperCollins India Rs.399 This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history. ___ Jahanara Sukumaran Eka Rs.399 Shah Jahan’s

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Register for Pension to Indigent Sports Persons, Odisha

October 25, 2024
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The Odisha state government’s Department for Sports and Youth Services offers a pension registration program for financially challenged athletes, allowing players to access support and benefits in recognition of their contributions to sports. Source link

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Online Admission for National Sports University

October 25, 2024
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The National Sports University offers a unique educational opportunity in sports sciences, sports technology, sports management, and sports coaching. As India’s premier institution dedicated to sports education, it plans to open new departments in line with advancements in sports-related fields. Additionally, it aims to serve as a national training center

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Baburao Bagul’s ‘Lootaloot’: A Deep Dive into the Struggles of the Oppressed in Mumbai

October 25, 2024
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In the titular story of Baburao Bagul’s classic short story collection Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is Becoming Cheap)—published in Marathi in 1969 and now available in translation as Lootaloot—a poet and short story writer walks through the city in search of a muse but finds, instead, sordid stories of the dispossessed. “This

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How Watching Films Influences Perceptions and Emotions: The Impact of Cinema in Society

October 25, 2024
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Watching a documentary film about a wrongly incercerated man caused participants in a study to be more supportive of reforms to the US criminal justice system. | Photo Credit: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx/picture alliance Storytelling is about changing minds. Film is no different: since the first moving pictures in the 1890s, filmmakers

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