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28 JAN

Mumbai is Right to Say “Yes” to “No-Selfie Zones”

The city has banned selfies in several areas after teenagers fell into the sea posing for a selfie.

COMMENTOn the 13th of January, Mumbai City officials announced that sixteen areas of the city are to be declared “no-selfie zones”. This was in response to a tragic incident in which three teenagers fell into the Arabian Sea while posing …

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27 JAN

Release Salinger’s manuscripts!

Another year has gone by and Salinger’s unpublished works remain a mystery to the public; how long will his literary estate keep this up? And is posthumous publication ever really unjustifiable?

COMMENTImagine this: it’s 2005 and J.D. Salinger is seated in his small shed nestled somewhere in the hills of Cornish, New Hampshire, alone. Little notecards charting his infamous characters like Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass flutter from a large bulletin …