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Mathures Paul

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Tech writer at The Telegraph (@ttindia & @t2telegraph). Propped up by coffee. Inspired by innovations. Reachable by email at [email protected]

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Upala Sen@UpalaSenOct 25
A pocket solution for those headed for #Darjeeling @ttindia
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Akashvani Kolkata @100 And the ghosts at Garstin Place. Reminiscings @ttindia @AkashvaniAIR
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Upala Sen@UpalaSenOct 25
Butterfly expert and the man behind the Bengali names of many butterflies on Nabokov’s chase and the story of a digital archive showcasing the Other India @ttindia
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Upala Sen@UpalaSenOct 11
Many Durgas… Happy Sunday reading @ttindia @prasunch @Moumita78
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Upala Sen@UpalaSenOct 4
The perfect kabiraji, the single diner in the city and mile long menus. Happy happy Sunday reading @ttindia @debabratee @andyvarma
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From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: Sujit Sinha tells the forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary scroll.in/article/1096141/fr…
From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: The forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary

From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: The forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary

The pianist with Indian roots moved from wartime radio and New Delhi to ragas, devotional music and one of the most unusual Gandhi recordings of the 1960s.

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In Bytes and Bullets, Steve Feldstein charts how futuristic technology is shaping military conflict, writes Mathures Paul. #military #technology #future @leo_mukherjee @MathuresP @SteveJFeldstein @Octopus_Books telegraphindia.com/books/the…
The tech missile

The tech missile

In Bytes and Bullets, Steve Feldstein charts how military technology is reshaping warfare, a shift that began around Donald Trump's first presidential term

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Jean-Yves Mollier delves into the stories behind the counter in his book, A History Of Booksellers and the Bookshop, writes Anjali Chauhan. #book #bookseller #bookshop @leo_mukherjee @chauhananjali98 @MtLeopardPress telegraphindia.com/books/the…
The ones behind the counter

The ones behind the counter

Rarely do booksellers, the indispensable figures who have connected books with their readers across centuries, occupy centre stage

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TTOpinion@opinion_ttSep 16
Accountability and transparency, more than slowing down AI products, may put a leash on rogue AI. An editorial. #AI #OpenAI #ArtificialIntelligence @leo_mukherjee @srimoyeebagchi telegraphindia.com/opinion/b…
Be Open: Editorial on AI safety and why companies cannot be their own watchdog

Be Open: Editorial on AI safety and why companies cannot be their own watchdog

A slowdown agreed upon among a few dominant AI firms would leave the central problem unresolved: the public cannot assess risks that companies alone define, investigate and disclose

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debabratee@debabrateeSep 13
10 behind the scene stories about how Durga Puja got its Intangible World Heritage tag @IndiaatUNESCO @prasunch @Moumita78 @UpalaSen @ttindia
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Jayanta Sengupta writes about the legacy of five historians from Bengal. #Bengal #History #Historians @leo_mukherjee telegraphindia.com/opinion/h…
History lessons

History lessons

Sumit Sarkar was the last surviving member of a remarkable cohort of Bengali historians — Ranajit Guha, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Ashin Das Gupta, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Sarkar himself

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Akshar 4.0 is out today. Now you can dictate in 22 Indian languages, and it all runs on your iPhone. Same keyboard you know, plus a mic key. Free, no ads. Also on Mac soon.
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The exhibition of Gopal Ghose's works at Ganges Art Gallery showed how he used colour as a medium of self-expression, writes Soumitra Das. #visualarts @leo_mukherjee @GangesArt telegraphindia.com/life/colo…
Colour speaks

Colour speaks

Gopal Ghose was not interested in creating detailed landscapes. With his brush and pastels, he hastily recreated the impression that a mountain range, rural scene and nature’s bounty had left on his...

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India needs a pathway to disrupt the classroom consensus, writes Yamini Aiyar. #student #education #CJP #exams @leo_mukherjee @AiyarYamini telegraphindia.com/opinion/d…
Dreary lessons

Dreary lessons

Exams are designed to privilege rote learning-based multiple-choice questions, making syllabus completion rather than subject mastery the goal, and rote-based pedagogy the means

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Calcutta's reckoning with WW2 is illuminating, writes Devasis Chattopadhyay. #history #war #kolkata @leo_mukherjee @DevasisC telegraphindia.com/opinion/a…
A fading fire

A fading fire

Calcutta is unusual among world cities for having so little war in its past. It is more unusual still for having let the one real brush it did have slip almost entirely out of its own telling or...

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A story on India’s gorilla dancers: telegraphindia.com/life/gori… And India’s real life superheroes: telegraphindia.com/life/supe… @ttindia @UpalaSen
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That’s Aryan Kumar Singh dressed as a gorilla outside his office in north Calcutta. While Aryan is about 5 feet 6 inches, the gorilla stands way taller at 8 feet. Aryan’s head is at its chest height. There is a flap in the costume through which he breathes and sees. @ttindia
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Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire by Munis D. Faruqui offers a radically new perspective on that sovereign, writes Lakshmi Subramanian. #Aurangzeb #Mughal #history @leo_mukherjee @juggernautbooks telegraphindia.com/books/ala…
Alamgir excavated

Alamgir excavated

If Akbar stands as the embodiment of syncretism and all that was benign about Indo-Islamic civilisational interactions, Aurangzeb is demonised as the Islamic king determined to root out all syncretic...

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Upala Sen@UpalaSenAug 30
The neighbourhood between Khardaha and Panihati — located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river on the northern outskirts of Calcutta — is called Sukchar or Sukhchar. In Bengali, sukh means happiness, char means sandbank. SWEET SPOT @prasunch telegraphindia.com/life/swee…
Sweet spot

Sweet spot

In the middle of a bitter price surge, the author recalls Bengal’s place in sugar production and the story of Sukchar

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“We read Sudhindranath Datta’s poetry, analysed the verse scheme. He prefaced one of his notes to me by quoting from Yeats’s When You Are Old & regarded Brecht’s A Worker Reads History as his favourite.” Subhoranjan Dasgupta’s tribute to #SumitSarkar telegraphindia.com/life/the-…
The man in the details

The man in the details

The author pays tribute to historian Sumit Sarkar

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