Daily Brief: Srinagar is readying for the G20 with dressed-up security bunkers and peacock murals, and more

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  • 19 May, 2023

Srinagar is readying for the G20 with dressed-up security bunkers and peacock murals

For the J&K government, the meeting – the first international event in Kashmir since the scrapping of Article 370 – is intended to send out a signal.

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India supplied $51 million in arms, raw materials to Myanmar military since 2021 coup: UN report

The arms were sent through 22 suppliers, including state-owned companies.

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Scholar says his paper was doctored to falsely justify the ‘revival’ of Kumbh Mela in West Bengal

During his Mann ki Baat programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that the festival had been stopped 700 years ago.

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Black, white and dead: The court battle for marriage equality resonates beyond those alive

Some of us see dead people in attendance to these proceedings. They represent oppression and indignity in different times, spaces and settings of society.

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Tracing the culinary history of Kochi’s breudher bread

Bequeathed by Dutch colonists, breudher has been slowly disappearing from Kochi’s bakeries but not from its mind.

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A new book examines the cryptocurrency upheaval in India and the world – and its perils

An excerpt from ‘Cryptostorm: How India Became Ground Zero of a Financial Revolution’, by Sundeep Khanna.

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‘8 A.M. Metro’ review: Slow-burning drama has moments of acuity

Raj R’s Hindi film stars Gulshan Devaiah and Saiyami Kher.

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Wrestlers’ protest: Achanta Sharath Kamal – ‘We as players stand by them in solidarity’

Paddler Sharath Kamal, vice-chairperson of the IOA’s Athletes Commission, hoped that the matter is resolved judicially and athletes can get back to training.

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Rush Hour podcast: A Kumbh Mela in Bengal that isn’t

A wrap of the day’s important stories.

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