How gossip became one of our biggest comforts in lockdown
Updated / Friday, 16 Apr 2021
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Kate Demolder is a freelance journalist.
Opinion: Kate Demolder explores the complication role gossip plays in our lives, and how the pandemic made us hungry for more.
Recently I learned that Leonardo DiCaprio wears noise-cancelling earphones during sex. In a news item branded Hollywood s laziest lover!’ Leo – star of The Beach, Romeo & Juliet and famous for not dating any model over the age of 25 – was outed by a recent conquest who claimed Leo reached for his vape and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones during sex.
Rumour has it, the Oscar-winner leant back, closed his eyes and signalled for her to keep going. The king of the world, indeed.
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Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India s state-making efforts, local inhabitants were in a position to compare and potentially choose between them. Using rich and original archival research, Bérénice Guyot-Réchard shows how India and China became each other s shadow states . Understanding these recent, competing processes of state formation in the Himalayas is fundamental to understanding the roots of tensions in Sino-Indian relations.
By Aysha Imtiaz 22 February 2021
In the highland hinterlands of subtropical Sylhet, a city in north-eastern Bangladesh known for its lush tea gardens, getting to school requires more than just waking up on time. I remember we used to cross a bridge and it got washed away every other year, said Dr Monjour Mourshed, professor of sustainable engineering at Cardiff University who grew up in Bangladesh. We [the village children] were used to it; we d just find a different path.
But what s more fascinating than the constantly altering school route is the calmness with which he acknowledged it. Mourshed s experience is the norm, not the exception, as Sylhet s geomorphology is subject to frequent change. A mound of land in the floodplain of the Surma River. Sylhet inhabits nature-on-the-move, writes Dr David Ludden, professor of history at New York University and former president of the Association for Asian Studies, in a 2003 paper that underscores the temporal nat
Ranikhet: Permanent Black , 2019; pp xiv + 250, ₹
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The title of the book invites attention at once. “Strangeness” is a curious word to use to describe a political and social culture within the union of India. It is interesting that
M S S Pandian has preferred it to words such as “exceptional” and “different.” Clearly, he does not want to mire his observations in more general arguments to do with history and civilisation in the subcontinent. Further, he makes clear that he is not really setting up a distinction between northern and southern expressions and points to the possibility of dialogue. “Yet,” he suggests, “there is simultaneously a distinct flavor and texture to regional politics” (p 16).
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