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Alarm Bells: Ciaran Thapar On How Therapy Changed Him

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By Ciaran Thapar
| 10 Magazine Verified
Before it went off, we had found a quiet rhythm. It was the beginning of summer, two years ago, and I was delivering a literacy workshop at a youth prison. I had two hours in a locked classroom to hold the attention of five teenagers with prompts to dissect rap lyrics, chair philosophical debates and spark reflective writing. After some tense, playful attempts to derail the start from the participants, they introduced themselves. After an hour, we’d curated a respectful atmosphere.
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‘They’re rowdy. They’re vibing. I rip my shirt off’: the exploding career of Hanumankind, India’s hottest rapper

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By Ciaran Thapar
| Inkl
‘There’s a mob mentality in India’ … Hanumankind. Photograph: Diego Bendezu Two weeks ago, halfway through his first ever UK show, Hanumankind instructed the crowd to mimic him by hopping to the right then to the left, back and forth, in unison. But the rapper from India slipped and fell, limping to the end of the gig in evident pain, kept upright by his DJ and inspired by the audience’s singalong familiarity with his catalogue.
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Youth violence’s rise is concerning, but mass hysteria doesn’t help

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By Ciaran Thapar
| Huck Magazine Verified
This Spring marks 20 years since the release of Bullet Boy, Saul Dibb’s film about a young man called Ricky (played by Ashley Walters) who tries to resist being dragged into a cycle of gun violence after returning home from prison. It explores Ricky’s personal battles, but also his influence over an impressionable younger brother, Curtis, and the painful disappointment of his mother, Beverley, who tries to hold her family together.
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