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Internationally acclaimed film Santosh blocked in India over portrayal of police brutality
Internationally acclaimed film Santosh blocked in India over portrayal of police brutality
Award-winning film set in fictional town has already made its debut at Cannes but censors have refused to approve it for domestic release
Indian film censors have blocked the release of critically acclaimed film Santosh over concerns about its portrayal of misogyny, Islamophobia and violence in the Indian police force.
Santosh, written and directed by British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri, is set in north India and has won international plaudits for its portrayal of a young widow who joins the police force and investigates the murder of a young Dalit girl. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Internationally acclaimed film Santosh blocked in India over portrayal of police brutality
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I find the FLOW Oscar so interesting because it wasn’t just cheap, it looks cheap. Color banding, vague textures, a couple characters seem unpolished. But it just doesn’t matter, it’s beautiful and riveting
Exquisitely articulated CGI hair is cool, but you can forget it isn’t a necessity
Exquisitely articulated CGI hair is cool, but you can forget it isn’t a necessity
March 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I find the FLOW Oscar so interesting because it wasn’t just cheap, it looks cheap. Color banding, vague textures, a couple characters seem unpolished. But it just doesn’t matter, it’s beautiful and riveting
Exquisitely articulated CGI hair is cool, but you can forget it isn’t a necessity
Exquisitely articulated CGI hair is cool, but you can forget it isn’t a necessity
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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org
February 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
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I can’t explain to anyone who hasn’t felt it, but I feel most religious at the movies.
February 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I can’t explain to anyone who hasn’t felt it, but I feel most religious at the movies.
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On this day in 1890, Russian author and poet Boris Pasternak was born. Pasternak is best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was banned in the Soviet Union but won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. Pasternak declined the prize. #OnThisDay #BorisPasternak #DoctorZhivago #LiteraryHistory
February 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
On this day in 1890, Russian author and poet Boris Pasternak was born. Pasternak is best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was banned in the Soviet Union but won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. Pasternak declined the prize. #OnThisDay #BorisPasternak #DoctorZhivago #LiteraryHistory
As much as i appreciated the rise of Aap, the downfall of Kejriwal is right, the AAP we wanted was about swarajya and peoples governance instead it became a personality centric cult.
February 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
As much as i appreciated the rise of Aap, the downfall of Kejriwal is right, the AAP we wanted was about swarajya and peoples governance instead it became a personality centric cult.
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Im done with 2025
February 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Im done with 2025
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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
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"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
December 26, 2024 at 3:31 AM
"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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I thought I was a bad listener. Turns out, I couldn’t hear
I thought I was a bad listener. Turns out, I couldn’t hear
Conversations in crowded places were difficult and I didn’t like podcasts – then a hearing test changed everything
I thought I was just a bad listener.
I didn’t like podcasts. I’d routinely interrupt conversations, asking “what?”, not able to keep up. I…
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I thought I was a bad listener. Turns out, I couldn’t hear
#makeaimediocreagain campaign is awesome
December 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM
#makeaimediocreagain campaign is awesome
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Fact: The Counting Crows lyric “it’s been a long December” was written halfway through the first day of December.
December 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Fact: The Counting Crows lyric “it’s been a long December” was written halfway through the first day of December.
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You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.
"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...