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Every step counts
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (262+ words) The discipline and art Classical Bharatanatyam demands a kind of totalness. It requires perfecting mudra, posture, and coordinating breath " control is not incidental but structural. So, what happens when faced with something that cannot be controlled? Those who remember Jayant's…...
Chembur tree was fully cut off from root by road work
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (575+ words) A preliminary civic investigation has indicated that the Chembur tree's root system had been severely damaged during road work completed barely six months ago. An 11-year-old boy was killed when the tree fell on his school bus on Tuesday. Four…...
Raising super readers
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (573+ words) I opened a book and in I strode Now nobody can find me I've left my chair, my house, my road My town and my world behind me. Over the years, through my children's book club, one lesson has stood…...
It's khatron ke khiladi, only with zero backups'
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (637+ words) For the hundreds of corporate employees who use the eastern approach road to Ram Mandir railway station every day, the monsoon has made an already difficult commute even more challenging. They also cited long queues for autorickshaws during peak hours,…...
We had cricket today. None of us imagined this would happen
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (347+ words) Mumbai Mirror Vihaan Srivastava's Tuesday had begun like any other school day The quiet, 11-year-old Class VI student attended classes at Universal School in Tilak Nagar, played cricket during a games period and boarded his school bus for the journey…...
Weaving resilience
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (244+ words) Sarabhai and their partner, Kai Hodgeson, 37, who live between Cape Town and Ahmedabad, first set out to build the archive in 2024. "The word felt like it encapsulated what we wanted to create: a living, evolving archive built collectively," they say....
Tree was flagged as unsafe
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (508+ words) Despite civic authorities sounding an alarm recently over its condition, the tree that collapsed and killed a schoolchild in Chembur was allowed to stand till the time of Tuesday's tragedy. According to Hetal Gala, chairman of BMC's Garden Department: "During…...