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The other side of life in the 5th largest economy: Deccan Chronicle

(This article first appeared in Deccan Chronicle on September 27, 2022)

• The jubilation over India’s GDP outstripping Britain’s is a reminder that Indians often take pride in records that should rightly be ignored or even sometimes treated as a matter of national shame. The quality of Indian life is exposed not by a tycoon or two strutting on the world stage but by India’s fall from 131st to 132nd among 191 countries in the UN Development Programme’s latest Human Development Index...

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Asia’s New Gilded Visas Target Wealthy and Highly Paid – Bloomberg

(This article first appeared in Bloomberg on September 21, 2022)

• If you have cash to splash and fancy a change of scenery, there have never been so many options...

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Going to Mokama was exciting, but there was fear too: The Hindu

(This article first appeared in The Hindu on September 23, 2022)

• Jyoti Thottam’s book,  Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women who Brought Hope and Healing to India, is more than just the extraordinary story of six nuns, belonging to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Nelson County Kentucky, who travelled by ship and railway in 1947 at a fraught time to set up Nazareth Hospital in the little-known town of Mokama in Bihar...

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Blockbuster ‘RRR’ was hyped to be India’s Oscar entry until it lost to Gujarati film ‘Chhello Show’ . What does the future of indie films look like? – The Hindu

This article first appeared in The Hindu on September 22, 2022 Despite the hype, Chhello Show has edged out RRR and Kashmir Files to become India's official entry at the Oscars. But what is the future of indie films once they come back home? The juggernaut that was S.S. Rajamouli's RRR ruled the box office for weeks, the memes that emerged from it flooded our social media feeds and it once again made Bollywood pine for that one film that could capture the Indian imagination the way RRR did. Even though it lost out to Gujarati film Chhello Show (Last Film Show) as India's official Oscar entry, RRR could still be nominated in the other categories at the 95th Academy Awards to be held on March 12 next year...

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How companies can curb moonlighting – The Economics Times

This article first appeared in The Economic Times on September 23, 2022

• Many organisations have relooked at day-to-day operations, and as they encourage employees to head back to office or follow a hybrid model in the 'new normal', issues such as 'moonlighting' - holding one or more jobs during the course of regular employment - have started surfacing...

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When a temple in southern Laos was a major Hindu pilgrimage centre: Scroll.in

(This article first appeared in Scroll.in on September 18, 2022)

• In 2022, it’s hard to imagine that the Theravada Buddhist-majority republic of Laos, which has traditionally been a part of the Sinosphere, was once home to a civilisation and temple complex that was a major centre for Hinduism in South East Asia. Almost all traces of Hinduism in what comprises modern-day Laos were wiped out after the major empires in the region, such as the Khmer, adopted Buddhism...

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