Arjō Gúptō

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Writing to be a filmmaker. #HeForShe

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Mahanagar (The Big City), 1963, BFI Trailer.

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“She sought to divert him, lowered her hands and said: ‘We’ll find a place among the Fremen?’ ‘The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity,’ he said. ‘They say: “Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”’ And he thought: Yes, mother mine – among the Fremen. You’ll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit … and you’ll bear my sister: St Alia of the Knife.”

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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r/OldSchoolCool - Harpo Marx performs "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on I LOVE LUCY - May 9th, 1955.

637 votes and 30 comments so far on Reddit

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What led Delhi’s Bahrisons to open a new bookshop in the capital during the pandemic?

The new bookstore even managed to launch a new novel within days of inauguration.

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If there’s a heaven, it’s just opened its first independent bookshop

If you believe in an afterlife, you have to believe that these three pioneering booksellers have set up shop together.

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How Bahrisons Delhi has been romancing books since 1953

The enchanting history of a bookshop, a family and reading.

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Maid review – Netflix eschews misery porn with a potent poverty drama

Margaret Qualley and her real-life mum Andie MacDowell play mother and daughter in a tender portrait of a young woman struggling to make a l

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This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin | Poetry Foundation

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

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“Shirley,” Reviewed: Josephine Decker’s Furious Melodrama of Shirley Jackson’s Life and Art

Decker elicits impulsive, even reckless performances from Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg that capture the dangerous power of thought in action.

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Explained: What’s changing on Google

Google has said its ad tools will no longer track individual users from 2022. A look at how this self-regulation effort aligns with the Google founders’ vision, and how it compares with other digital giants’ approach.

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Why it is important for classrooms to learn to transgress

Education cannot —and must not – be delinked from politics and its contestations

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In classrooms, we need to rediscover meanings of ‘disobedience’, ‘nationalism’

As teachers, many of us become overly cautious so that every word we utter in our classrooms becomes "technically perfect", "legally sanctified", and is in tune with the dominant ideology of nationhood.

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Global freedom watchdog report downgrades India from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’

India’s score decreased from 71 to 67, with 100 being the ranking for the most free country, and its rank fell from 83 to 88 out of 211 countries

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For more online civility, we will need deeper engagement, careful legislation

A wider toolkit is necessary for the government to build a framework that respects Indians who use these platforms and the collective online public and private spheres we are building together.

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Mukul Rohatgi: In Disha Ravi case, sedition charge wrong… To curb dissent with such tactics not authorised by Constitution

As attorney general, he has argued for the govt in high-profile cases, including the triple talaq and the National Judicial Appointments Commission cases. He has also served as additional solicitor general in the Vajpayee government.

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Against environmental clearances: Green tribunal cited delay in filing as reason to dismiss every second plea

As many as 11, half of these dismissals, an analysis by The Indian Express of the orders shows, were on the technical ground that appellants did not approach the Tribunal in time.

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From reality to dream and back, with Jean-Claude Carrière

Collaborator of cinematic geniuses like Luis Bunuel, Jacques Tati, Peter Brook and Abbas Kiarostami, the late screenwriter was a remarkable storyteller.