Opinion I How to talk to your kids about news?
Several news channels are now contemplating going free-to-air as pay TV hasn’t penetrated the rural market. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
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To share or not to share news of current happenings with the children? That is one of the many dilemmas we face as parents today. If we decide to do so, then how much information is safe to share? Sometimes, even before we can make up our minds about it, kids have already heard the news, either blaring on the television sets or during discussion at the table. It just doesn’t stop at whether to share or not, but how does one make soft landings with such hard news? How does one deal with emotions and ensuing questions? And, most importantly, how to duck the ones we are not ready to talk about just yet? With school still shut, children have become directly impacted by this unfortunate world crisis. They want to ask questions about the multi
JCB Prize 2020 shortlist | Dharini Bhaskar on why Scheherazade is the story
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In part two of a series of essays, written exclusively for Lounge, by writers shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020, Dharini Bhaskar wonders if the pandemic has opened new possibilities for storytelling
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My two-year-old son stands at the doorway that leads to language. Each day, new words rush towards him pushcart, waterfall, animal. He tries to befriend them.
Today, the word is ‘rubberband’. My son views it with tentativeness. ‘
Rub-ber-band,’ he says, the first syllable stretching. He isn’t pleased, I can tell, his eyes frown. ‘Rub-ber-
How a Danish family built an extraordinary collection of modern Indian art
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The name of VS Gaitonde shot into prominence in the global art market in 2013, after an oil painting by the artist fetched ₹20.5 crore at a Christie’s auction in India. The huge interest it generated led to a retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, the following year. Since then, Gaitonde’s work has featured in auctions regularly and sold for impressive sums.
Although critically admired by his contemporaries, Gaitonde’s commercial recognition came much later, almost entirely posthumously. Last month, a painting by him set a world record for Indian art by fetching ₹32 crore at a Pundole’s auction. An upcoming auction by Sotheby’s on 29 September estimates one of his paintings to fetch £1.5-2 million ( ₹15-20 crore). Apart from Gaitonde’s work, the auction features paintings by
Was Dogra general Zorawar Singh buried by Tibetan forces with military honours?
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In a peculiar rarity, a defeated army honoured a General of the enemy army in 1841. One man found his samadhi by accident during his travels through Tibet
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After light refreshment and tea in the dining hall we sauntered outside. Outside the gate, we met a Chinese ‘gentleman’ wearing a three-piece black suit and sporting a shiny embroidered tie. I smiled at him. He smiled back, bowing a little. We shook hands. I introduced myself. He bowed again, his right hand on his chest and spoke very politely ‘Welcome to China, hope your journey was good’. It was suave and impressive English from Wang. Yes, that was the name. We chatted about life in India and China.
The Casteless Collective’s brand of musical activism
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So, I go around the city, cleaning shit with my bare hands… .
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The underground sewer gets clogged up often enough.
They send us down with only a rope tied around.
Will it be dark?
If I were to even slightly slip, will I survive?
(translated from Tamil by the band)
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