Why Are Indian Metro Cities The Worst To Live In, Despite High Taxes?

The simpleton from a small town arrives in a bustling metro city, imagining life through rose-tinted glasses. But as he slowly adapts to the bustling city life, the stark reality of it all hits him hard. The young IT professional in Bangalore is stuck in an hour-long traffic jam; the Delhiite is battling with smog; […]

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Lal Bihari was legally dead for 18 years and fought to undo it

In parts of Uttar Pradesh, India, one way to seize a relative's land is to bribe an official to declare them dead. The Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People exists to reverse those declarations. According to Wikipedia, in the region, "many have resorted to bribing officials to have the owner of a plot of land declared deceased and the title transferred to their ownership." — Read the rest…

Tussen de geverniste loopjongens

Uit de tombola van de leesclub kwam de winner van de Booker-prize van 1997: De God van Kleine Dingen van Arundhati Roy. Een moderne klassieker, postkoloniale literatuur in een Indiase setting eind jaren '60.

In De God van Kleine Dingen maken we kennis met een tweeling, Estha en Rahel. Vanuit hun perspectief als zevenjarigen bekjken we de wereld, en vooral hun familie. Meerdere generaties…

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Woman Shares What All She Has To Hear As A Big-Chested Girl In India

There is a particular kind of social intrusion that Indian women learn to expect from a fairly early age, the unsolicited commentary on their bodies delivered not as cruelty, but as concern. Aunties who tell you to eat more and less in the same sentence. Relatives who document your weight across every family gathering, year […]

From the Community | SIPEC’s ideology is constructive dialogue

Aggarwal argues that SIPEC aims to create an environment where "criticism is informed, arguments are tested and people with different viewpoints can engage one another seriously."

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What does a rock sound like when it's shaped into an instrument?

At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way. In this video, a visitor strikes a stone instrument with a smaller stone. It produces a clear, xylophone-like sound that makes me wish I could play in this sound garden, too. — Read the rest

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မေ ၂၉ ၊ အိန္ဒိယ အိန္ဒိယဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ရဲ့ဖိတ်ကြားမှုအရ အိန္ဒိယ နိင်ငံကို သွားရောက်မယ့် ဦးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်ရဲ့ ခရီးစဉ်အတွင်းမှာ စီးပွားရေး၊ ဘာသာရေး ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

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Meloni cita il parishram per celebrare il binomio Italia-India. Ecco perché

C’è il meraki, il gambaru e anche il parishram. Ovvero la forma indiana per declinare il concetto di “duro lavoro”, “impegno costante”, “fatica”. Parishram è parola molto utilizzata in India, dice Giorgia Meloni nel suo intervento a Villa Pamphilj dove ha ricevuto il premier indiano Narenda Modi. E lo fa per cerchiare in rosso un […]

Why an Indian Village Leader’s Welfare Reels Are Going Viral

In December 2025, 20-year-old Gamit Vipul chanced upon something interesting while doing what people his age do across the world: scrolling through reels on Instagram. It was a short video made by someone who lived barely seven miles from his village, detailing a government pension scheme available for people with...

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From the Community | Stanford, not SIPEC, is the party failing students

Hoover research fellow Dinsha Mistree argues that the University is responsible for the lack of opportunity to engage with contemporary Indian politics.

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Nintendo apparently entering the Indian market in 2027 with original Switch

The Nintendo Switch is closely closing in on sales to the best-selling video game console, the PlayStation 2 from Sony. One way Nintendo could do this is to launch the original Nintendo Switch in the Indian market which would be a sure-fire hit with those looking for a healthy dose of excellent games and a… Read More »Nintendo apparently entering the Indian market in 2027 with original…

Severe thunderstorms leave over 100 dead across Uttar Pradesh, India

Severe thunderstorms swept across Uttar Pradesh, India, on the night of May 13, 2026, claiming at least 104 lives and leaving over 59 people injured across the state. Prayagraj was the worst hit, with preliminary reports indicating between 20 and 30 fatalities. Widespread destruction was reported in multiple districts, with more than 80 homes being damaged along with other structures.

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Una mirada desde la India al agro argentino: “Con sus recursos pueden dar comida a 500 millones de personas”

Entrevista a Ajaneesh Kumar, embajador de India en la Argentina. Una radiografía del gigantesco mercado y los modos de producción del país asiático y las oportunidades que tiene el agro argentino, con el girasol como botón de muestra.

The Musician Racing to Preserve a Disappearing Soundscape

It was the winter of 2011. The stage was set, the audience in place on a cold Delhi evening. The audience gasped audibly when Rewben Mashangva walked into the spotlight with his son Saka. Oblivious to the chill, he was dressed in the sleeveless woven red and black jacket worn...

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Los agroexportadores ponen la mira en India: “Es una potencia, pero tiene problemas de seguridad alimentaria”

Durante el Congreso "Mar de Girasol", el presidente de CIARA-CEC, Gustavo Idígoras, habló sobre la fuerte relevancia que está asumiendo ese mercado. No obstante, alertó sobre el riesgo de dependencia: "Hoy, si la India se resfría, Argentina entra en neumonía en materia de soja y girasol".

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-17-26

Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday's links come in the Newsletter Leaf Journal).

  1. Gemini adds personalized AI image generation using your preferences (Fla for AlternativeTo. April 17, 2026.)

Google Gemini now enables users to generate deeply personalized images, with Nano Banana 2, by drawing on their preferences and Google…

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