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Zooming in on Watershed s new album, Elephant in the Room The popular local band found inspiration in the lockdown to create tracks that reflect the times we re living in. Frontman Craig Hinds tells us more Watershed s frontman Craig Hinds. Image: Andrew Gorman As Zoom fatigue sets in for many people, the thought of another work meeting held over the app is enough to make them roll their eyes. Creativity , collaboration those are often the words used to describe a sense of what s been lost without face-to-face interaction with colleagues. But for the guys from Watershed, Zoom was the only way to communicate while they were putting together their seventh studio album during a large part of last year. ....
From the art market to museums, here are our top stories from a year in lockdown. March 16, 2021 People wearing protective face masks outside the Louvre in Paris. Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. The past year has been a whirlwind: wildfires raged in California, Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, protests against police violence erupted around the world, and an unheard of virus swept the planet, bringing life, as we knew it, to a standstill. As we look back on the one-year mark of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve compiled our 2020–21 COVID-19-related coverage, from its effects on the art market and the museum world, to the ways in which we found some levity. ....
Activists Puncture Govt s Claims on Steps It Took to Combat Migrant Workers Crisis Experts say the Centreâs claims in rebuttal to the recent Freedom House report on the state of democracy in India belie ground reality. Migrant workers walk with their children to their villages after India announced a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Reuters Rights06/Mar/2021 New Delhi: In its rebuttal to the Freedom House report titled ‘Democracy Under Siege’ in which it has been claimed that Indiaâs status as a free country has declined to âpartly freeâ, the Centre has claimed that it was âmisleading, incorrect and misplaced“. The Indian government then proceeded to spell out what it did for migrant workers and towards enhancing food security during the pandemic. ....