The transition from revelry to repentance marks a profound shift in the Christian calendar, encapsulated in the dynamic interplay between Carnival and Lent. Carnival, a lively festival celebrated across many predominantly Roman Catholic regions, ushers in a period of exuberance and indulgence preceding the solemnity of Lent.
Loosely based on the 1987 novel ‘Strangers’ by Taichi Yamada, the film ‘All of Us Strangers’, written and directed by
It is love that takes centrestage on 14 February, Valentine’s Day. Though the day’s romantic associations have evolved over centuries,
I imagine how I would start if I were in Yuriko’s place. What should be the first sentence of a book for my daughter? It could be like this: “Once there was a country called Soviet Union. Its official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was an experimental state. The USSR existed until 1991, when it collapsed. Yes, for you it was totally the past and already finished story, since you were born in 1992.
For the past three decades, the discourse on climate change and global warming has taken center stage on the world’s discursive platform. Ever since the 2015 Paris Agreement, limiting global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average global temperature has been a central tenet of this discourse. The global average temperature is rapidly approaching this critical threshold.
I was familiar with every bit of it. The green mountains, the rainforest, the blue horizon and beautiful Assamese people. It was in the month of February in 1982 when I got an engineering job in Hindustan Paper Corporation’s Jagiroad plant site.
As I could contemplate, I met this person a couple of years back at my forest address. It happened two years ago, but the memory was still fresh in my mind. Initially, I had little confusion. He had put on weight and was chubbier with plump cheeks.
Suddenly, a police jeep on patrol flashes its lights on my down-and-out shelter and presses the brakes on the driveway. As soon as the roar of the engine died down, the five-battery spotlight swept across the forest and settled on my hovel.
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