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The most anticipated show of the year is BACK! Blame It on Nehru returns with more stories, fresh additions and a whole lot of political absurdity.
Early Bird tickets are now OPEN! Grab yours today. Comment NEHRU for ticket link.
Sun 15th Nov 7PM
The Quorum Gurugram
Weekend of quizzing! Organised by super juniors from college. I have a few questions in the Film & Art quiz. If you are in Kolkata this weekend, do attend. Venue is GLT, Calcutta Medical College.
What a beautiful story!
Children, Qawwali and a viral moment—how a Lahore academy is uniting Indians and Pakistanis
Debdutta Chakraborty @debdutta_c reports
ThePrint #GoToPakistan
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This ruling comes on top of a previous one-year prison sentence handed down in late 2025 for "propaganda activities against the system.”
Panahi won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his film It Was Just an Accident. What a film!
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On an ordinary day in 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius exploded. Within a day city of Pompeii was gone, buried under metres of volcanic ash. There’s an Indian goddess who survived the eruption of Vesuvius and stayed under the ash for almost 1,900 years.
Thread on Pompeii Lakshmi. 1/19
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Raphinha, who plays for Barcelona, will be remembered as the most famous footballer to openly show his support for Lula against far-right Bolsonaro in Brazil’s elections.
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Ashoke Sen, the celebrated physicist from Kolkata, has just become the first Indian to win the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal for his groundbreaking work in string theory and our understanding of black holes. But black holes have more to do with Kolkata than you think. Thread 1/12
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Professor Ashoke Sen is an extraordinary human. In 2012, he won the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize, worth $3 million. He could’ve well used the amount for personal luxury, instead he donated a large chunk of it to help students, fund fellowships & support science in India.
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Ok. 😍
Bengali Scientist Prof. Ashoke Sen Creates History! 👏❤️
Prof. Ashoke Sen has become the first Indian physicist to receive the prestigious 2026 Oskar Klein Medal.
Awarded jointly by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, this elite honour recognizes his pioneering contributions to String Theory.
To commemorate the achievement, he delivered the Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture titled "Gravity from Strings and Strings from Gravity" at the AlbaNova University Center, Sweden.
Honoured for his groundbreaking work on String Field Theory, S-Duality & Precision Counting of Black Hole Entropy.
Currently serving as the ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, Prof. Sen joins a legendary roster of past laureates including Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs and Steven Weinberg.
#Bengali #AshokeSen #OskarKleinMedal #StringTheory
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A young Bengali graduate chases mosquitoes and malaria patients for a British doctor in Calcutta for days, helps crack how malaria spreads, a discovery that changed the fate of civilization, then watches his boss win the Nobel Prize without once saying his name. Thread. 1/22
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Maha Ashtami the most auspicious day of the five day Durga Puja festival. A unique ritual of Maha Ashtami is the Kumari Puja at the Belur Math, originally started by Swami Vivekananda. Today, we look back at its intriguing origin (1/15)
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Lucknow's Bengali Club Durga Puja
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Photographs of Durga Pooja in Srinagar, 1966. The celebration was organised by Bengali-Kashmiri Sabha in which Kashmiri Pandits and Bengalis were members (Source: Ashima Kaul / searchkashmir.org)
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Clay image of Durga in worship during the annual autumnal festival of Durga Puja, Calcutta, 1997. Photograph by the Pika Ghosh.
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