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Mathures Paul

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Tech writer at The Telegraph (@ttindia & @t2telegraph). Propped up by coffee. Inspired by innovations. Reachable by email at mathures.paul@abp.in

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In the #ChildrensDay issue of Telekids @ttindia we asked our young readers to write something to or about their grandparents. Do read what they have to say
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Uttam Kumar’s image as the ultimate Bengali nayak underwent a fascinating rabbit-hole journey, writes Nilosree Biswas. #UttamKumar #bengali #cinema #actor #masculinity @leo_mukherjee telegraphindia.com/opinion/a…
An actor of different shades

An actor of different shades

In the year of his birth centenary, Uttam Kumar’s legion of fans are free to choose their own version of his screen persona from his vast body of work

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Are sneakers the new diamond? And what’s with the plethora of marathons… Happy Sunday reading @ttindia @debabratee
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Don Quixotes to the rescue? @ttindia @PranavBhasin_ @NewYorker @priyankachopra #WeWereHere
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Jack Preger was no barefoot doctor, writes Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. #JackPreger #Calcutta #philanthropy @leo_mukherjee telegraphindia.com/opinion/p…
Philanthropic heart

Philanthropic heart

The British doctor, who founded Calcutta Rescue, cited Gandhi and Nehru to explain that no one in the subcontinent had achieved anything unless they first saw the inside of a jail

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One hundred entangled years @sandiplomat @ttindia
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A pocket solution for those headed for #Darjeeling @ttindia
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Akashvani Kolkata @100 And the ghosts at Garstin Place. Reminiscings @ttindia @AkashvaniAIR
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Butterfly expert and the man behind the Bengali names of many butterflies on Nabokov’s chase and the story of a digital archive showcasing the Other India @ttindia
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Many Durgas… Happy Sunday reading @ttindia @prasunch @Moumita78
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The perfect kabiraji, the single diner in the city and mile long menus. Happy happy Sunday reading @ttindia @debabratee @andyvarma
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From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: Sujit Sinha tells the forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary scroll.in/article/1096141/fr…
From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: The forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary

From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: The forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary

The pianist with Indian roots moved from wartime radio and New Delhi to ragas, devotional music and one of the most unusual Gandhi recordings of the 1960s.

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In Bytes and Bullets, Steve Feldstein charts how futuristic technology is shaping military conflict, writes Mathures Paul. #military #technology #future @leo_mukherjee @MathuresP @SteveJFeldstein @Octopus_Books telegraphindia.com/books/the…
The tech missile

The tech missile

In Bytes and Bullets, Steve Feldstein charts how military technology is reshaping warfare, a shift that began around Donald Trump's first presidential term

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Jean-Yves Mollier delves into the stories behind the counter in his book, A History Of Booksellers and the Bookshop, writes Anjali Chauhan. #book #bookseller #bookshop @leo_mukherjee @chauhananjali98 @MtLeopardPress telegraphindia.com/books/the…
The ones behind the counter

The ones behind the counter

Rarely do booksellers, the indispensable figures who have connected books with their readers across centuries, occupy centre stage

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Accountability and transparency, more than slowing down AI products, may put a leash on rogue AI. An editorial. #AI #OpenAI #ArtificialIntelligence @leo_mukherjee @srimoyeebagchi telegraphindia.com/opinion/b…
Be Open: Editorial on AI safety and why companies cannot be their own watchdog

Be Open: Editorial on AI safety and why companies cannot be their own watchdog

A slowdown agreed upon among a few dominant AI firms would leave the central problem unresolved: the public cannot assess risks that companies alone define, investigate and disclose

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10 behind the scene stories about how Durga Puja got its Intangible World Heritage tag @IndiaatUNESCO @prasunch @Moumita78 @UpalaSen @ttindia
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Jayanta Sengupta writes about the legacy of five historians from Bengal. #Bengal #History #Historians @leo_mukherjee telegraphindia.com/opinion/h…
History lessons

History lessons

Sumit Sarkar was the last surviving member of a remarkable cohort of Bengali historians — Ranajit Guha, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Ashin Das Gupta, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Sarkar himself

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Akshar 4.0 is out today. Now you can dictate in 22 Indian languages, and it all runs on your iPhone. Same keyboard you know, plus a mic key. Free, no ads. Also on Mac soon.
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The exhibition of Gopal Ghose's works at Ganges Art Gallery showed how he used colour as a medium of self-expression, writes Soumitra Das. #visualarts @leo_mukherjee @GangesArt telegraphindia.com/life/colo…
Colour speaks

Colour speaks

Gopal Ghose was not interested in creating detailed landscapes. With his brush and pastels, he hastily recreated the impression that a mountain range, rural scene and nature’s bounty had left on his...

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India needs a pathway to disrupt the classroom consensus, writes Yamini Aiyar. #student #education #CJP #exams @leo_mukherjee @AiyarYamini telegraphindia.com/opinion/d…

Dreary lessons

Exams are designed to privilege rote learning-based multiple-choice questions, making syllabus completion rather than subject mastery the goal, and rote-based pedagogy the means

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