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Eminent Bengali poet and writer Nirendranath Chakraborty passes away
Born in 1924 at Faridpur in undivided Bengal, Chakraborty was a dominant figure in the modern Bengali literary field. He published his first book of poems, Nil Nirjone, in 1954, when he was 30 years old. In 1974, he won the Sahitya Akademi award for his poem Ulanga Raja, which was a satire on society.
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Jnanpith Award 2018 won by novelist Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh’s works include The Circle of Reason (1986), Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) and Sea of Poppies (2008). The Indian government awarded Ghosh the Padma Shri in 2007.
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Twitter remains indifferent to reports of violence against women
The international organization said that Twitter has asked them for a clarification on the definition of “problematic” in accordance with “the need to protect free expression and ensure policies are clearly and narrowly drafted
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First Critics’ Choice Short Film Awards: Kani Kusruti bags best actress award for ‘Maa’
South Indian actor Kani Kusruti has won the best actress award for Maa , a Tamil short film at the first Critics' Choice Short Film Awards 2018.
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Black and queer musician Janelle Monae nominated for Grammys
Her previous albums, The ArchAndroid and The Electric Lady, both featured storylines with the character Cindi Mayweather, a cyborg living in a futuristic world.
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Julia Vinograd, the Berkeley poet known as ‘The Bubble Lady’ dies at 75
Her poetry continued, honoring the lost, the misfits, the downtrodden, the abandoned, the wild and the free. She was called a street poet. She was for decades part of Berkeley’s cultural DNA. She wrote 50 volumes of poetry, much of which is about Berkeley.
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Novelist Anees Salim among recepients of 2018 Sahitya Akademi Awards
The Sahitya Akademi also revealed winners in the Bhasha Samman categories, awarded to writers and scholars “in recognition of their significant contributions in the field of Classical and Medieval literature and also in Unrecognised languages”.
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Kuwaiti artist creates cemetery dedicated to banned books
Sharaf describes the piece as a “symbolic piece of protest and public art intervention.” He stated that he received a lot of support on social media, but also some criticism from those who don’t believe he should be championing books that are sexual or promote secular or atheist ideals.
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UNESCO Adds Reggae Music to Global Cultural Heritage List
Reggae emerged in the late 1960s out of Jamaica's ska and rocksteady genres, also drawing influence from American jazz and blues. The style quickly became popular in the United States as well as in Britain, where many Jamaican immigrants had moved in the post-WWII years.
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NASA’s InSight lands on Mars after six-month journey
"Landing on Mars is one of the hardest single jobs that people have to do in planetary exploration," InSight's lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt, said before Monday's success. "It's such a difficult thing, it's such a dangerous thing that there's always a fairly uncomfortably large chance that something could go wrong."
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Believe, where it is all about the men in #metoo
Watch the video that was inspired by real stories shared by real men
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Meet Rekha, India’s first fisherwoman
she is the only woman to get a deep-sea fishing licence from the State Fisheries Department. The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, the country’s premier marine research agency, felicitated Rekha recently.
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