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  • Freelance Culture and Music Journalist, Freelance
Delhi
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Freelance culture and music journalist from New Delhi, India.

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Pellet guns, surveillance, and the Delhi protest crackdown

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By Vedaant Lakhera, Anjum Katyal, Akhil Sood
| Frontline India Verified
On July 20, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) gave a “Sansad Chalo” call to people across Delhi, exhorting them to march to Parliament. At that time, the CJP, along with other student organisations, had been agitating for five weeks at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of the then Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, over examination irregularities. On the day of the march, Delhi witnessed a massive surge of protesters. Both ends of Jantar Mantar were packed to capacity.
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The Great Nicobar coral heist

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By Anjum Katyal, Akhil Sood, Siddharth Behl
| Frontline India Verified
Two scientific bodies under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)—the Kolkata-based Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Chennai-based National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM)—have given diametrically opposite reports on the status of coral reefs in Galathea Bay, Great Nicobar Island (GNI).
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Ode to a Grieving Angel: A Haunting Cycle of Poems

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By Naveen Kishore, Anjum Katyal, Akhil Sood
| Frontline India Verified
Ode to a Grieving Angel. The title evokes tradition. The Romantics. Keats. Shelley. “Ode to a Nightingale”. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. “Ode to the West Wind”. Or, closer in time, Pablo Neruda: “Ode to My Socks”. Is that the intention, then? To insert this cycle of poems into a tradition of poetry? A casual peck on the keyboard tells us that most modern odes use “irregular or free verse, abandoning strict meters and fixed rhyme schemes while keeping a highly reverent tone”.
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