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Plan to exit ‘Lockdown’ or ‘Self Destruction’? – Things we must not ignore

The way in which the word corona has been terrifying the World, the only cure that has come to everyone’s mind is a lockdown. As has been in the case of earlier epidemics, no pre-planned long-term preventive measures could be taken in this time of crisis too. It has ultimately led the whole world to […]

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Valuing human lives – Where we are heading towards

There is an apparent decline in valuing human life in recent times. The mob lynching of Abhijeet Nath and Nilotpal Das; the killing of Girish Dutta last year etc. are just a few instances indicating this trend. Depending on specificities of each incident the factors are many including the rapid spread of hate speech, circulating […]

The post Valuing human lives – Where we are heading towards appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Nilakhi Baishya.




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CBI begins probe into liquor sale during lockdown: Bedi

Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Friday said the Central Bureau of Investigation has started a probe into illegal sale of liquor during the lockdown.




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AIADMK wants liquor shops to be opened in U.T.

In a reversal of its position on opening liquor shops during the lockdown period, AIADMK on Friday asked the government to allow sale of alcohol in th




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Quarantined Family Re-Creates Journey’s “Separate Ways” Video Shot-by-Shot

The Heller family writes: "Solitary confinement does strange things to the best of us and this quarantine was really having an effect. My wife texted me and said, 'we need to remake a music video.' I thought that sounded like a lot of work, but her persistence paid off and here we are. Enjoy!" via […]

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‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951

By the start of the 1950s, the euphoria felt by Americans after winning World War II had given way to a pervasive atmosphere of dread. The Soviets had exploded their first atomic bomb, McCarthyism had reared its head, and America's schoolchildren would soon be told to "Duck and Cover" at the first sound of a […]

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3D Interactive Globes Now Online: Spin Through an Archive of Globes from the 17th and 18th Century

Willem Janszoon Blaeu Celestial Globe 1602 No matter how accustomed we've grown over the centuries to flat maps of the world, they can never be perfectly accurate. Strictly speaking, no map can perfectly capture the territory it describes (an impossibility memorably fictionalized by Jorge Luis Borges in "On Exactitude in Science"), but there's a reason […]

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Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s Bolero While Social Distancing in Quarantine

Like everyone else in COVID-19 isolation, Juilliard students are itching to get out and play. For them, the desire is a little more of an imperative. Without meeting and rehearsing together, these dedicated artists at the beginning of their careers can’t hone their skills. “In normal times,” writes Benjamin Sosland at the Juilliard Journal, “Juilliard’s […]

Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s <I>Bolero</I> While Social Distancing in Quarantine is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooksFree Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.




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Star Trek: World-Building Over Generations—Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42

The world-wide Tribble infestation and Star Trek: Picard dropping make this an apt time to address our most philosophical sci-fi franchise. 44 years of thought experiments (with photon torpedoes!) about what it is to be human should have taught us something, and Brian Hirt, Erica Spyres, and Mark Linsenmayer along with Drew Jackson (Erica's husband) […]

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Watch Florian Schneider (RIP) in Classic Early Kraftwerk Performances

The seventies, am I right….? Not that I can claim to have experienced it firsthand. But if I could have been a witness to any period in pop history it would have been the decade in which experimental fusion movements invaded rock and roll. There was Miles Davis and his protegees, of course. But there […]

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The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene, Restored with Artificial Intelligence

No image is more closely associated with the birth of the motion picture than a train pulling into the French coastal town of La Ciotat. Captured by cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the 50-second clip frightened the audience at its first screening in 1896, who thought a real locomotive was hurtling toward them — […]

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Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal (Until the End of the Weekend)

FYI: Masterclass is running a Buy One, Share One Free through this weekend. Here's the gist: If you buy an All-Access pass to their 80+ courses, you will receive another All-Access Pass to give to someone else at no additional charge. An All-Access pass costs $180, and lasts one year. For that fee, you--and a family member or friend--can […]

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Download Free Doctor Who Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings (Plus Many Other BBC TV Shows)

Enthusiasm for British television is a force of nature. That goes even more so for British television fandom outside Britain. All of us have known someone, or indeed been someone, who shifted their cultural allegiances wholesale after watching a single episode of, say, Monty Python's Flying Circus. But even that hugely influential comedy series commands […]

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Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments”

King Crimson’s master guitarist Robert Fripp has had a career long reputation as an autocrat, and exacting, difficult taskmaster. He’s named an album, a band, and a record company “Discipline.” Drummer Bill Bruford once described him as an “an amalgam of Stalin, Gandhi and the Marquis de Sade,” according to The Telegraph. But recently, there’s […]

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Why We Send Our Kids to the Poorest Public School

It's not just my own kids' well-being that matters anymore.




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Yes, Sometimes We Can Serve Both God and Mammon

My congregation's experiment in using market values to grow our mission.




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A Christian Covers the World's Longest Cocktail Party

An interview with Kelly Crow, who has reported on the contemporary art world for 'The Wall Street Journal' since 2006.




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Would You Move After a Shooting On Your Front Lawn?

How we came to answer the question in Memphis.




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How Church Unity Overcame Hurricane Sandy

A look at Staten Island one year after the storm.




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Getting New Yorkers to Hear the Word

How Bethany Jenkins's daily devotionals kickstart common-good Christianity in NYC.





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'I was lucky that Rahman handed one of his best songs to me'

Singer Chinmayi Sripada has sung some of Rahman's most popular songs.





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'I don't want to over-feed people with lots of my songs'

Ayushmann Khurrana talks about his first single O Heeriye and his future projects.





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Here's why YOU should watch Shahid

Actor Rajkumar and director Hansal Mehta tell you why it's worth your while this weekend.




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Like Koffee With Karan 4 promo? VOTE!

Watch the video and vote!






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Watch: How Aamir got his Dhoom 3 look

Checkout the cool video




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'It was really nice to sing Saree ke fall for Sonakshi'

Upcoming singer Antara Mitra shares her R... Rajkumar experience.










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Watch: Shah Rukh Khan's SLAM! The Tour

We offer a sneak peek.




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'I started composing music because I was sitting at home, not doing anything'

'I cried after my elimination from Indian Idol because I had got used to the lavish lifestyle, the good food, good hotels, good clothes and I was going to miss that.' Shivam Pathak returns to the good life, thanks to his hit music in Mary Kom.




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Shah Rukh, Deepika, Abhishek: Who is the most talkative actor?

Watch the video for the answer.




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Watch: Saif's Happy Ending look

The film will release on November 21.




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Watch the NEW Kill Dil trailer!

The film looks like a lot of fun.




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Watch: Ajay Devgn shows off his dance moves

Watch the fun song.




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'No film list is complete without Garm Hava'

Farooque Shaikh tells us why.




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Watch: The Snazzy X Trailer

Catch the trailer!




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Video: Watch Shruti Haasan's sizzling item song in Tevar

Like the song? Tell us what you think of it!




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Rajinikanth: Illaiyaraaja was very naughty and mischievous

'I told Illaiyaraaja when he had composed music for 786 films that soon there will be 1,000. Today is that day.' The film industry felicitates music composer Illaiyaraaja.