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Arunava Sinha’s translations of tales penned by different writers reflect not just Bengali creativity, but the legacy of British colonial rule
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...Jeremy Hunt made big changes to the tax regime for so-called non-doms in his Budget, axing the colonial-era concept of domicile in tax and cutting the amount of time that people can benefit from the perks...
...Quenum, who often works with artisans, will be asking visitors to look through a freestanding window whose panes are made of verre Colonial (or Colonial glass)....
...The Belgian colonial presence in the Congo included viciously extractive colonists who cut children’s hands off as punishment for failing to meet rubber-tapping quotas....
...The Wretched of the Earth, which praises the salutary effects of anti-colonial violence on the colonised, was in part a defence of the FLN’s tactics....
...Ireland’s current home is the first of 20 houses in her new book A Life in Design, which features several of her own properties, including a 1923 Spanish Colonial-style property in Santa Monica she bought...
Marcy Norton takes a fascinating look at how animals were treated as thinking, feeling beings in many pre-colonial societies
...Ian Stephens, a yoga-loving journalist based in Calcutta in the 1940s, doubtless seemed an unlikely figure to take on colonial rulers in wartime India....
...Yet this story has been overlooked in many histories of the postwar period and also of the end of the colonial era....
...Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have been given 72 hours to leave the country, foreign minister Yván Gil said on Thursday, accusing the body of failing to be impartial and had an “abusive, colonial...
...When it comes to the stolen objects, giving them back to the AI to create another iteration feels like it’s freeing the sculpture from the box of the museum, from this heavy history of colonial occupation...
...These arguments are reminiscent of those used during the colonial era. The role for international actors in the aftermath of any conflict should be behind-the-scenes and advisory....
...Other funding: several ways of raising the fiscal headroom look likely, including appropriating Labour’s plan to cut colonial-era tax breaks for non-domiciled UK residents....
...Continental office owners such as Fabege and Colonial both have LTVs closer to 40 per cent. Aroundtown, which invests in German offices, has an LTV close to 60 per cent....
...The same artefacts and world views that inspired western Modernism, the series hints, also safeguarded natural habitats before the advent of colonial industrialisation....
...But the colonial monopolies broke down long ago, and there are now plenty of diamonds....
...This is an exhibition that initially appears anachronistic, a celebration of British Modernism developed for a late-colonial context in West Africa and India....
...Rapid advances followed the defeat of fascism in 1945, colonial independence in the 1950s and 1960s and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, though declines feature in the past two decades in many countries...
...“And the potential evolution of cyber threats into infrastructure attacks — similar to the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021 — is likely to further amplify these repercussions.”...
...Exploring the colonial avenues behind, I find another of those Victorian clock towers, this one commemorating James Birch, an overzealous British administrator who was murdered in his bath in 1875....
...Caleb Okereke, a Nigerian journalist writing in Foreign Policy, says the claim that homosexuality is “un-African” has little basis in fact, with same-sex relationships tolerated in many pre-colonial African...
...Under the leadership of General Omar Tchiani, Niger has cut ties with former colonial power France, ordering the departure of 1,500 French troops and expelling the French ambassador....
...A Tropical Modernist, he rejected colonial architectural styles that ignored their surroundings, speaking of the need to look “Ceylon [Sri Lanka] squarely in the face”....
...The mine is run by a unit of Jardine, one of Hong Kong’s oldest colonial-era business empires....
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