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01

Sep

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Anna Chandy: the one who stood tall in court

A picture of Justice Anna Chandy published in The Hindu on February 13, 1959. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives A feminist, the founder-editor of a magazine, and most importantly, the first-ever female judge in the history of the Indian judiciary. This is the story of Anna Chandy.A fierce advocate of women’s rights and equality, Anna Chandy was born in Travancore, Kerala, in 1905. She was raised by the women of her family due to the death of her father at an early age. Perhaps that is what made her ideas and thoughts on equality modern and quite ahead of…

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30

Aug

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Is wearing black in summer always a bad idea? Maybe, wearing black is actually cool!

Have you ever been told not to wear black because it’s too hot outside or to wear white because it’s too hot outside? Well, it’s an interesting notion that has come in that light colours or white help to keep your body cooler. It was in the 1980s that four researchers saw that a particular desert community known as the Boudins had been wearing black woollen outfits despite living in such a hot and harsh climate. ‘Does it not make things worse for them in the desert?’ was a major question that came into their head. Further pushing them to research…

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19

Aug

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Movie Review: Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens

The Garden of Earthly Delights | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In its just-over an hour and a half long runtime, ‘Before the Flood’ does not say much about how climate change entirely can be stopped, and perhaps, with good enough reason. Director Fisher Stevens, whose Academy-Award winning, ‘The Cove’ exposed the brutal slaughter of dolphins in Japan, teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio as they travel around the world to discover the causes and shocking effects that climate change has had across the globe. The film opens with the famous painting by Jheronimus Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, a canvas…

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19

Aug

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Movie Review | The Death of a Soul: Sardar Udham by Shoojit Sircar

What happens when you allow one of the country’s best directors to finally make what has been a dream project? You get a visual portrait so riddled with intricacy and intimacy that you can, from the very first look, tell that the artist’s passion for their art was at its creative peak. Such is the story with Sardar Udham, a film that is Sircar at his best. Unforgettable are those thirty harrowing minutes, which unfold like a haunting nightmare you cannot get up from but have to endure. Perhaps because this nightmare was very much real for so many people.…

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18

Aug

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The story of vinegar: this everyday condiment in our kitchen has a lot more history to it than you think!

If you step into a kitchen, a condiment might be sitting in a corner of your shelf, not getting too much attention in your everyday life, except when pickles are the topic. Yes, I am talking about the good old vinegar that often gets forgotten amidst the dozens of sauces, dips, and other condiments on the shelf. Vinegar is a fermented product made through a two-step fermentation process. First, yeast converts sugars from a source like fruit juice, grains, or potatoes into alcohol. Then, bacteria, specifically Acetobacter, convert the alcohol into acetic acid (the main component of vinegar) and water.Did you…

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04

Aug

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The Yellow Pages: a walk down memory lane

You want to contact an organisation or a person, or even a nearby tailor. What do you do? Pick up your phone or laptop, search for ‘tailors near me’ or whichever service is required and give them a call, right?Now, imagine living in an era where the internet is almost nonexistent. You do not have a cellphone, let alone a smartphone, to Google things. What do you do?That is where the Yellow Pages come in.What are the yellow pages?Yellow Pages is one of the most iconic directories, which came into being in the late 19th Century and bridged the gap…

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04

Aug

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Why are parachutes shaped like that?

A parachute lets you float in the sky, gazing at the vast lands below, before gently landing back on your feet. For adventure lovers, it’s an adrenaline rush and a moment to cherish forever. The purpose: Slow and steady A parachute’s main purpose is simple but life-saving: it slows you down in mid-air. When someone falls from a height, it’s the parachute that helps them descend gently, rather than plummeting at great speed due to gravity. The large, wide canopy increases air resistance or drag, by catching as much air as possible. This drag pushes against the pull of gravity, reducing…

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28

Jul

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World Nature Conservation Day | Anil Mistry: From poaching to protecting

It was a quiet day in the late 90s. A young man born in a poacher’s family was in the middle of a hunt in the dense forests of the Sundarbans. They had managed to shoot a doe, but it was a bit later that they realised a fawn was hiding behind and was left an orphan because of their action. The man, deeply moved by this scene, was unable to let go of the guilt and decided to turn himself in to the officials. This is the story of Anil Mistry, the poacher turned conservationist of the Sundarbans. Born on…

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28

Jul

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World Nature Conservation Day | Review of Gints Zilbalodis’s ‘Flow’

Flow | Photo Credit: Creative Commons In an era of big-budget studio-produced animation films, one of the most memorable and groundbreaking motion pictures comes in the form of the delicate story of a cat’s journey in a world that feels oddly familiar, perhaps because one can imagine such a situation is not too far away from occurring on our planet. The film follows the journey of a cat that lives by itself in a jungle but must now fight to survive in a world that is suddenly devastated by a great flood. Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Flow’ pulls you in…

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28

Jul

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World Nature Conservation Day | Review of Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Princess Mononoke’

Princess Mononoke | Photo Credit: Creative Commons It was only recently, with the advent of the rising usage of AI, that the ‘Ghibli Filter’ trend took the internet by storm. Amidst this, arrived the release of the recently remastered ‘Princess Mononoke’, which reminded the world once again that no matter how much artificial intelligence may try, it can never quite understand the emotional depth and capture the true essence that lies in each perfect hand-crafted frame made by Hayao Miyazaki and the artists at Studio Ghibli. Set in the Muromachi Period of Japan, we are quickly introduced to our protagonist,…

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