Insight: Martinique's water woes drive anger at French rule In Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean, tourists flock to crystalline waterfalls nestling in the tropical rainforests. But the water that comes out of Christelle Marie-Sainte's tap at home runs yellow.

"Known locally as Békés, the white creole families make up about 1% of the population but control swaths of the economy on the island of 350,000 people, the majority of whom are Afro-Caribbean, or descendants of Indian and Chinese indentured labourers."

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What might be more evil than celebrating the decline of a stock price?
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Scamsters Trick India's Retail Investors Out of Millions in Life Savings The rising complaints of stock-linked frauds in India show how greed has turned the country into a hotbed of financial scams.

An unprecedented nine-year stock boom has minted millionaires in India, but has also turned the country into a hotbed of financial scams.

I thought the Zoya and Reema one was less focused than the Karan one, in the sense with the KJo piece he got to the heart of the matter immediately- the change in administration of Dharma is so closely linked to the downgrade in their products. Not so with the Z + R piece

If you are poor, please starve

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When I start playing Conan and Kevin Nealon on repeat, I know my period is due

Truly the worst of times

To no one's surprise this has been deleted, so sharing screenshots here!

:( Yeah, that seems likely (I scrrenshotted and saved the whole piece because I was expecting this to happen)

The First Rule of Moifightclub: Pretend You’re Still Fighting How Somen Mishra’s presence became Dharma’s manual for manufactured rebellion

The BEST writing on what plagues Bollywood that I think I’ve ever read.
The cultural intelligentsia at the Wire sitting on their lofty panels trotting out buzz words in perfectly spoken English sentences should really learn
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Btw, has it struck anyone that constant awareness and endless cognitive analysis of everything that plagues you WITHOUT being given any actual help on how to process all this information and difficult emotions, is the OPPOSITE of being good for your well being?? Just a thought

At some point people are going to snap out of this nonstop-navel -gazing-parading-as-“mental health awareness” mass psychosis. Right? RIGHT??!?

Saw someone offering a “guided journaling workshop” for 20 pounds!!

This is, to me, one of the strongest pieces of evidence of how the internet and social media is cooking our brains: the way the information firehose makes a lot of people feel that things that were shocking, even a couple of years ago, are now ancient history, a distant era that we’ve moved beyond.

Anyway, comedically, nothing is better than 30 Rock and the first three seasons of Arrested Development

I do feel that Tina Fey- specifically with Mean Girls and 30 Rock- was THE cultural reset. I think it was after these two projects that "women can't be as funny as men" stopped being conventional wisdom (yes, yes in a very American pop culture influences all else kind of way).

oh i think this is exactly right. people care about your views but they ALSO care about whether you seem real and authentic

I can’t fathom this level of cruelty

I need my full maida cake, my full fat milk, and my full fat malai thank you very much!