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A story every week from the subcontinent. We're an @ATSDotIn venture. NL: https://xitter.cf/t.co/agVAwRF6Av. Season 2 finale: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ycI4JKfeef…

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Lovely weekend read on M Vishveshwariah and the back-stories & complex negotiations that went into the raising of ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಸಾಗರ/ KRS in Mandya-Mysore fiftytwo.in/story/reservoir-… – at Chamrajnagar, India

Reservoir Gods

How the Cauvery was dammed, through the eyes of the project’s foremost champion, M. Visvesvaraya—and his fiercest critics — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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AP was "Pappu" to his family, and “Dada”—elder brother—to a generation of young Rajput boys. But AP wasn’t Rajput. Or, at least, Rajputs didn’t think of him as their own—until he became a gangster. @joyinderpura fiftytwo.in/story/the-clansm…

The Clansman

Anand Pal Singh was from a community that occupied the fringes of Rajput culture in Rajasthan. But his life and death recalibrated the community’s dynamics—and swung an election — A new story from...

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Australia has a reputation for venomous snakes, we’ve all seen the memes. But all of Australia has the same population as Delhi. @kamakshi138 peels the layers of India’s crippling snakebite problem. fiftytwo.in/story/scales/

Scales

Over 50,000 Indians die of snakebite every year. We know how to save these lives—but producing the cure is easier said than done — A new story from India to the world, every week on FiftyTwo.in.

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When the KRS dam was sanctioned, even the grand American project Tennessee Valley Authority was two decades away. So, what possessed a princely state and its cadre of Indian engineers to undertake it? fiftytwo.in/story/reservoir-…

Reservoir Gods

How the Cauvery was dammed, through the eyes of the project’s foremost champion, M. Visvesvaraya—and his fiercest critics — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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For years, Indians have been obsessed over the question of when, where and if Subhas Chandra Bose died. But the answers have always been waiting for those who wanted to know, in Taiwan. By @sowmiyashok fiftytwo.in/story/holograms/

Holograms

For years, Indians have been obsessed over the question of when, where and if Subhas Chandra Bose died. But the answers have always been waiting for those who wanted to know, in Taiwan — A new story...

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In Bettiah, the hunger for a large piece of land and an obsession with bloodline spilled over across eras, courts and generations. @rumbotupalli presents a Game of Thrones from Bihar. fiftytwo.in/story/bloodline/

Bloodline

How desperate kings, veiled queens, greedy bureaucrats and brilliant lawyers fought over a Bihar estate containing some of the most fertile land in India — A new story from India to the world, each...

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What do Urmila, Leela, Gourav, Kevin and Revathi have in common? Besides being the protagonists of @WhyGaze's essay, actually, very little. That's the point.  "Coupling" investigates the way some LGBTQ+ Indians have understood, conceived, and lived queer marriages.
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This is a mosaic of lived experiences that isn't quite captured in 280 characters, movement manifestos––or legalese. fiftytwo.in/story/coupling/

Coupling

Stories from the spectrum of queer marriage in India, beyond the pale of law and identity — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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#JubileeOnPrime An ode to Indian Cinema! What a brilliant show! Respect to each and everyone who believed in it and brought it to us. To those who enjoyed it - do read this longread on #Andolan fiftytwo.in/story/our-strugg…

Our Struggle

Their grandson is one of the most successful Hindi filmmakers of the 21st century. But back in the 1950s, the Motwane family of Chicago Radio already knew that celluloid made legends—and preserved...

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In parting, I echoed his farewell, one that evokes a sense of camaraderie: ‘yaaro yaari.’ Over this journey, I would meet many more like him—people who’d lost everything to the water, but had always known it better than all others. fiftytwo.in/story/rivers/

Rivers

When you go looking for the rivers Hakra and Puran in Sindh, you find floods, danger, poets and protestors — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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Tbh, there's hardly any miss at @FiftyTwoDotIn, but this one especially resonates because this very opportunity is available for taking in a market like Nigeria too. There's so much idleness and/or youth in rural Nigeria too, and very few options.
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Just finished reading this and it's really good.
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And this one fiftytwo.in/story/human-touc…

Human Touch

Artificial intelligence may be making some jobs obsolete but it has given a new lease of life to one group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in the machine learning pipeline: first...

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« When you go looking for the rivers Hakra & Puran in Sindh, you find floods, danger, poets & protestors » Essential, lyrical piece by @zuhaib_pirzada in @FiftyTwoDotIn on the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan.#ClimateJustice #LossandDamage fiftytwo.in/story/rivers/

Rivers

When you go looking for the rivers Hakra and Puran in Sindh, you find floods, danger, poets and protestors — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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'For decades, he cherished one dream: to see his sport succeed in India, and for the country to have its own full-fledged professional league.' @KaranMadhok1 on Indian basketball and its greatest coach India may have never heard of. fiftytwo.in/story/the-bounce…

The Bounce

How a generation of Punjabi giants rode the highs and lows of Indian basketball, guided by one slight Tamilian man — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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1930. The Kapila family had just moved from Punjab to Nairobi. In both India & Kenya, there were stirrings against the colonial oppressor. But freedom would arrive in different ways. @anuradhakumar01 looks at tumultuous times through AR Kapila's eyes. fiftytwo.in/story/the-advoca…

The Advocate

In the middle of the twentieth century, country after country threw off the colonial yoke in East Africa. An Indian lawyer represented the men who would become the dissidents and presidents of the...

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“Ab upar jaake lena case waapis.” Now go up to heaven and take the case back. These were the last words allegedly spoken by the man who stabbed Jitender Meghwal to death. @KapilKajal1 reconstructs a caste crime. fiftytwo.in/story/knife-in-t…

Knife in the Back

In western Rajasthan, Dalits may be murdered for the endearments they call their children, for twirling their moustaches—or for their social media. This is the story of one young man’s death and how...

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In the Sundarbans, a mother and daughter’s lives are circumscribed by the weather, poverty and social control. @MRitwika tells their story: fiftytwo.in/story/storm-cycl…

Storm Cycle

In the Sundarbans, a mother and daughter’s lives are circumscribed by the weather, poverty and social control. They’re trying to break the cycle — A new story from India to the world, each week on...

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Met another namesake last week, who heard me out for the second time in 3 months abt how we both have @FiftyTwoDotIn bylines and an IIM Cal scene this time, I also told him abt my book, which’d just been rejected by the NIF fellowship. He said he wasn’t with them currently BUT—
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Jubilee, Vikram Motwane’s upcoming series, is set in the world of 1940s and 1950s Hindi cinema. He knows a thing or two about it. His granddad once made a film ft. Kishore Kumar that had its muhurat shot at the legendary Bombay Talkies. @neerjadeodhar fiftytwo.in/story/our-strugg…

Our Struggle

Their grandson is one of the most successful Hindi filmmakers of the 21st century. But back in the 1950s, the Motwane family of Chicago Radio already knew that celluloid made legends—and preserved...

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When the meme is extremely poisonous, as it often is, there may be no one to point a finger at. That anonymity is the boon and curse of the loose collective known as the Tamil Meme Nation. Boundaries blurring is, in a sense, the theme of @gradwolf's essay: fiftytwo.in/story/masters/

Masters

Politics, social tensions, and comedy all found a home in Tamil cinema. The Tamil meme needs all four things to work — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

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