UpFront
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Snapshot: The life and times of Girish Karnad
The veteran actor and playwright passed away on Monday from a prolonged illness, leaving an illustrious literary legacy
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The making of a YouTube radical
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism
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Google made $4.7 billion from the news industry in 2018, study says
Google and Facebook's role as middlemen allows them to take a huge proportion of online ad revenue away from news outlets, who are losing a crucial source of income
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If seeing the world helps ruin it, should we stay home?
To people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times. The number of airline passengers worldwide has more than doubled since 2003, and unlike with some other pollution sources, there's not a ton that can be done right now to make flying significantly greener
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How nuclear bomb tests are helping to identify art forgeries
Using radiocarbon dating, scientists can uncover counterfeit artworks using smaller than ever samples of canvas and paint
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Ten interesting things we read this week
This week we have a liberal (sic!) breadth of views, news, analyses and even pure facts — Management Psychology (Breaking the 4-minute barrier), Communication (How to disagree with your boss), Gender equality (Men afraid of mentoring women), Economy (Future shock in India), AI (Robots that can change the world), Fiction (Review of Fall, or How the flesh still matters in Internet utopia), Business (Why packaged goods fend off tech disruption), and Movies (Article 15 is part of the caste problem it attempts to portray).
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Why Fiat Chrysler's talks with Renault fell apart
The auto companies ran headlong this week into a familiar problem in France: the government itself
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Inside Apple's earthquake-ready headquarters
While other Silicon Valley buildings are likely to suffer damage and be nonfunctional for days, if not months, after an earthquake, Apple's headquarters, are designed to be usable immediately after
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Apollo Tyres hits IL&FS brakes
Profit drops two-thirds after firm once again writes off ₹100 crore in bankrupt lender
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Blackstone: Value builders
Blackstone has done its bit to dispel notions that PE investors kill jobs, strip assets and quickly 'flip' (sell) the business at a profit
