This week Surabhi Jain, who runs curiocity.scrollstack.com, talks about Love in the Time of Lockdown. "I also had my own ups and downs dealing with fear and anxiety about the pandemic, about health, about the future, like so many others. But I found a constant source of comfort and compassion in his relaxed and cheerful demeanor," she writes. 

Meanwhile, Naresh Fernandes, who runs tajmahalfoxtrot.scrollstack.com  speaks about the marvel that a song composed in Bombay created around the globe- Bombay Meri Hai. "Bombay Meri Hai is among the songs in the “masala” section of Catholic wedding parties – the fast-paced crescendo during which revellers wave white handkerchiefs above their heads to conjure up a long-forgotten aboriginal past as they dance to Marathi and Konkani tunes," he writes.

On the other hand, ReSet talks about how the new invention of a magnetic contraption installed in the mouth that locks people’s jaws shut and restricts them to a liquid-only diet in order to fight the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ only perpetuates food shaming. "Experts studying nutrition and eating disorders have expressed their horror at this “barbaric” device but the researchers from the University of Otago, are convinced that their latest invention will help people," the article states.

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Love in the time of lockdown by Surabhi Jain

Love in the Time of Lockdown

The first lockdown 2020

curiocity.scrollstack.com

For All Time. Always. Loki Season Finale Episode 6 by Aradhye Ackshatt

For All Time. Always. Loki Season Finale Episode 6

As usual, in case you're short on time but want the low-down on Loki:

opendurbar.scrollstack.com

நாவாய் ஒப்பந்தம் - II by கா. தாஸ்

நாவாய் ஒப்பந்தம் - II

"என்ன செய்தீர்கள் அதன் பின்?" என்று வினவினார் ஹோம்ஸ்.

வேர்கள்-இலைகள்-தழைகள்.scrollstack.com

Bombay, it's ours by Naresh Fernandes

Bombay, it's ours

In 2004, the Sri Lankan pop sensations from the 1960s, The Jet Liners, held a reunion concert in Colombo. As a finale, they performed this song: Bombay Meri Hai – a tune that has been a Bombay party standard since was released four decades ago. The first time I realised that the tune was hugely popular south of the Palk Straits was in 2000, while eating a meal in a Sri Lankan restaurant in the New York borough of Staten Island. As I tucked into my hoppers and curry, a Sinhalese version of Bombay Meri Hai called Ran Ran Ran blasted out of the speakers. I marvelled at how a song composed by a guy who lived around the corner from me in Bombay had spread around the globe like this.

tajmahalfoxtrot.scrollstack.com

Loki, Kang, Thanos, and free will by Vijayendra Mohanty

Loki, Kang, Thanos, and free will

The Marvel series Loki introduces us to the idea of the sacred timeline. It is a singular view of the universe where things are allowed to happen in only one way. When someone diverges from this "one true way", they are punished. This is a lot like some of us having this idea of "true history" - a singular view of the past that corresponds with our political views and how alternative ways of recalling the past are frowned upon or even punished. There are tribal histories, minority histories, Dalit histories and mythologies that are not remembered because they are the equivalent of divergent timelines. People who speak of these pasts are punished for doing so. So the MCU is perhaps not as much of a fantasy as it might seem because of the visual effects and the muscle mass that come with it.

vimoh.scrollstack.com

This New Invention to Fight the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Only Perpetuates Food Shaming by Re:Set

This New Invention to Fight the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Only Perpetuates Food Shaming

Recently, researchers in New Zealand and the U.K. have come up with a terrifying solution to the “obesity epidemic” — a magnetic contraption installed in the mouth that locks people’s jaws shut and restricts them to a liquid-only diet. Experts studying nutrition and eating disorders have expressed their horror at this “barbaric” device but the researchers from University of Otago, New Zealand, are convinced that their latest invention will help people. 

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